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^OYALJ^  LA  MORTT 

ARMS  OF  FORSYTH    OF    FAILZERTON 
County   Ayr,    Scotland. 


ARMS  OF    FORSYTH  OF  TAILZETRTON 
County   Stirling,    Scotland 


The  black  two-headed 
eagle  of  the  Caiiovin- 
gian  Dynasty,  with  cor- 
onet between  the  heads, 
was  the  ensign  of  the 
Seigneur  de  Forsath, 
Viscount  de  Fronsac, 
son  of  the  Emperor 
Charlemagne  and  broth- 
er of  Louis,  King  of 
Aquitania  in  825.  A.  D. 
'i"he  modern  shield  of 
Forsyth  is  emblazoned 
on  the  eagle  in  this  illus- 
tration,   to  whirl 


been  added  the  crest 
and  motto  of  the  Fail- 
zerton  branch  as  repre- 
senting the  eldest  line, 
derived  through  m  a  r  - 
riage  of  the  heiress  of 
Margaret  Forsyth  and 
('apt.  Jehan  Denys 
with  Capt.  James  For- 
saith  of  Fai  1  ze  r  t  o  n  , 
whose  only  daughter 
married  Walter  Forsyth. 

)\ost    of    (ilasgow 

liege,  in  167S. 


ARMS    OF     FORSYTH     OF     THE     FIRS 
Mortinner,     Berkshire,     England 


^RMS  OF  FORSYTH  OF  THE  COUNTIES 
of  Cromarty  anc)  Elgin,  Scotland. 


MEMORIAL 


OF  THE  FAMILY  OF 


FORSYTH'  DE    FRONSAC 


FREDERIC  GREGORY  FORSYTH  DE  FRONSAC 


.LOYAL  'A~L A'M  0 R TE 


BOSTON 

Press  of  S.  J.   Parkhill  &  Company 

1903 


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ARISTOCRACY 

Page  260,  Vol.  II,  of  Professor  Laycock's  '■'Mind  and  Brain  " 
reads  :  "  The  highest  evolution  of  what  I  have  termed  '  Primordia 
Instincts  '  is  seen  in  the  communistic  instincts  of  two  classes  of 
animals  which  are  at  the  head  of  their  respective  archetypal 
branches:  z'/s:.,  the  social  insects  —  the  most  highly  developed  of 
the  invertebrate  ;  and  the  social  man  — the  most  highly  developed 
of  the  vertebrate.  In  truth,  the  family  instincts  are  the  solid 
foundation  of  society.  Hence  it  is,  in  proportion  as  they  are 
active  in  a  nation,  in  the  same  proportion  is  its  social  organization 
vigorous  and  complete." 

Aristocracies  are  formed  by  Nature,  by  the  general 
advancement  of  the  fittest.  This  is  accomplished  genealogi- 
cally, and  genealogy  is  the  science  on  which  aristocracy  rests. 
From  the  study  of  genealog}-  arises  the  science  of  heredity, 
of  the  science  of  psychic  transmissions. 

Nobilities,  on  the  other  hand,  are  not  formed  by  Nature, 
but  are  recognitions,  by  man  and  his  government,  of  aristocratic 
products. 

Nobility  and  aristocracy  are  not  always  the  same,  yet  they 
are  related.  An  aristocracy  does  not  exist  in  vigor  without 
producing  a  nobility,  and  a  nobility,  even  though  at  first  formed 
of  unaristocratic  products,  if  continued  in  a  proper  manner, 
makes  itself  respectable  and  conservative. 

Of  aristocracy,  though  containing"  different  elements,  there 
is  but  one  description.  It  is  an  organic  body,  in  a  community, 
bred  to  eminence  and  renown  b}-  many  generations  of  honor- 
able career  and  exalted  position. 

Of  nobility  there  are  three  formations  :  I,  by  the  sword  ; 
II,  by  the  pen ;  III,  by  landed  estates  ;  in  other  words,  by  tal- 
ent recognized  in  individuals,  regardless  of  family  connection, 


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IV  FORSYTH    DE    FROXSAC 

I,   in   war;    II,   in   state-craft  and   science;   and    III.   in  loni^ 
territorial  succession. 

Aristocracy  gives  tlie  firm  ground-work  of  character,  nobility, 
the  transitory  mark  of  distinction.  The  ancient  king  was  not 
always  from  the  most  eminent  family,  and  when  the  king- 
grants  titles  to  his  servants  aristocracy  is  destroyed.  The 
aristocracy  has  always,  on  this  account,  held  itself  superior  to 
any  order  of  nobility  that  is  not  founded  on  aristocratic 
products. 

The  aristocratic  power  in  families,  in  a  state  mak(^s  itself 
manifest  by  creating  a  little  kingdom  for  each  of  the  fjimilies. 
This  little  kingdom,  erected  on  a  few  acres  of  land,  and  known 
as  the  family  estate,  is  cherished,  by  the  members  of  that 
family,  as  a  territory  peculiar  to  itself.  A  family  estate  is 
different,  in  this  respect,  from  the  estate  of  any  particular 
rich  man,  or  corporation.  The  aristocratic  family  has  changed 
the  acres  it  occupies,  by  the  fairy  wand  of  its  sentiment, 
by  the  power  of  its  individuality,  into  a  territorial  realm  that 
bears  evidence  to  its  renown.  A  state  that  encourages  fami- 
lies of  this  sort  to  hold  territorial  positions  strengthens  itself 
in  the  hearts  of  its  best  people,  and  provides  a  barrier  against 
the  restlessness  of  anarch)'  that  an  unsympathetic  democracy 
always  engenders. 

F.  G.   Forsyth  de  Fkonsac. 


CHIVALRY 


Who  says  the  knight  shall  come  amain, 
With  gilded  mail  and  trappings  vain, 
His  pride  in  pomp  alone  to  glow, 
For  wealth,  his  energy  o'erflow  ? 
They  estimate  his  worth  too  small, 
Who  think  that  virtues  near  him  pall  :  - 
It  is  by  them  alone  he  lives  : 
They  are  the  gems  of  Chivalry. 


II 


They  form  the  charge  he  honors  most : 
They  give  to  him  his  proudest  boast  : 
Their  honor,  gentleness  and  grace 
Shine,  like  the  sunlight,  from  his  face. 
With  frail  timidity  removed, 
By  them  his  worth  to  Valor  proved. 
Theirs  is  the  name  for  which  he  strives 
To  gain  the  fame  of  Chivalry. 


Ill 

Such  is  the  need  of  every  state  : 
Without  it  all  its  days  are  late. 
So  faintly  shines  their  light  of  dawn, 
That  night  and  day  seem  almost  one, 
And  deeds  of  darkness  hold  their  sway, 
When  Honor  has  not  strength  to  stay — 
And  Honor  in  some  form  must  brood. 
Or  else  there's  never  Chivalry. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

IV 

That  form  Humanity  must  own, 
And  person  is  the  seed  that's  sown. 
From  seedling  must  the  flower  expand  - 
Grass  seed  but  grasses  can  command, 
And  roses  ne'er  descend  to  grass, 
Though  frequent  soiled  and  torn,  alas  ! 
And  ruined  in  the  course  of  life, 
And  so  declines  their  Chivalry. 


But  children  of  the  rare  rose  born, 
If  Chivalry  their  lives  adorn, 
Have  in  them  all  that  generous  mood, 
Whose  ceaseless  virtue  keeps  them  good. 
No  moth,  corrupting,  mars  their  state : 
Misfortune  cannot  make  them  hate 
A  noble  cause  —  though  beaten  ill: 
It  is  the  cause  of  Chivalry. 


VI 


Let  knighthood  only  be  for  those 
Whose  fame  is  like  the  rare,  white  rose  — 
To  lead  them  to  an  honored  state  ;  — 
Those  men,  whose  lives  are  true  and  great  : 
Whose  deeds,  though  crowned  not,  like  Success, 
Reach  hearts  by  motives  pure  and  bless 
Them  with  a  love  of  right  that's  strong 
And  'stablished  as  their  Chivalry. 

F.  G.  Forsyth  de  Fronsac. 


CHARLEMAGNE    PRESIDING    AT    THE    SCHOOL    OF    THE    P. 


HISTORY  AND  GENEALOGY 


FAMILY  OF  FORSYTH  DE  FRONSAC 


PART  1  — HISTORY 

ORIGIN  OF  THE  FAMILY  AND  RACE 

THE  name  Forsath,  afterwards  Forsjt/i,  is  first  mentioned 
in  Froissart's  Clironicles  of  the  Middle  Ages  in  the 
chapter  devoted  to  the  invasion  of  Aquitania  in  1344  by  the 
EngUsh  army  of  tlie  Earl  of  Derb),  who  commanded  in 
the  name  of  the  French  family  of  Plantagenet  on  the  Eng- 
lish throne  in  their  attempt,  as  descendants  from  the  ancient 
kings  of  France,  to  possess  themselves  of  the  throne  of 
France  also.  All  the  manuscripts  of  Froissart  in  the  P^nglish 
Collection  spell  the  name  Forsath,  and  Forsathe.  The  trans- 
lation of  two  manuscript  copies  in  the  French  Collection  spell 
the  name  Forsach  and  Torsach.*  As  Froissart,  the  historian, 
was  in  the  service  of  the  Plantagenets  when  he  wrote  his 
Chronicles  and  as  the  best  and  most  numerous  of  his  MSS. 
remained  in  England  and  are  the  originals,  they  are  the 
ones  most  worthy  to  be  consulted. 

La  Grande  Ejicyclopcdie  dc  France  describes  Fronsac  as  an 
ancient  district  of  France  in  Aquitania,  bordering  on  the 
Ri\er  Dordogne ;  its  history  reaches  back  to  the  Roman 
period.  This  history  says  that  a  castle  —  which  is  discovered 
in   Froissart  to  have  been  named  Forsath  —  was  built  by  the 

*  Doubtless  the  commentator  forgot  the  mark  which  makes  a  c/  an  e^  in  his  MS. 


2  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Emperor  Charlemagne  in  768  on  the  Tertre  (or  hill)  of  Fron- 
sac.  It  was  built  by  the  Emperor  as  a  restraining  influence 
on  the  people  of  the  West  whom  he  and  his  Franks  had  con- 
quered. 

Lavisse,  in  the  Histoire  Generale,  Vol.  I,  pp.  310,  describes 
this  castle  on  the  Tertre  de  Fronsac  as  the  most  powerful  of 
Western  France  and  as  the  headquarters  of  the  military  dis- 
trict of  the  West.  Over  this  district  the  Emperor  put  his 
son  Louis  as  King  of  Aquitania,  who  became  afterwards 
Emperor  on  the  death  of  his  father,  Charlemagne,  while  the 
first  lord  or  Seigneur  de  Forsath,  Vicomte  de  P'ronsac  and 
military  governor  of  the  district,  was  of  the  same  imperial 
family  (Carlovingian)  and  son  of  the  Emperor  Charlemagne. 
The  pedigree  of  Charlemagne  from  the  King  of  Austrasia  is 
as  follows  :  — 

I.     Ansigisc,  King   of  Austrasia,  in    650  A.  D.  married 
Sainte  Beggipe,  daughter  of  Pepin  de  Landen.      His  son  : 

II.  Pepin  d' Heristal,  Duke  of  France,  married  Plectrude, 
daughter  of  Prince  Hugobert,  in  706.      His  son  : 

HI.  Charles  Martel,  Duke  of  France,  725,  mariied  Sonis- 
hilda,  niece  of  Odilon,  Duke  of  Bavaria.      His  son  : 

l\'.  Pepin  le  Pre/,  King  of  France,  752,  married  Bertrade, 
daughter  of  Caribert,  Comte  de  Laon.      His  son  : 

V.  CJiarlemagne,  luiiperor  of  the  Romans  and  King  of 
the  Franks. 

THE    RACE 

The  Franks  were  an  army  of  knights  and  nobles  of  differ- 
ent European  races  confederated  together.  Although  the 
greater  number  of  them  were  of  Cermanic  origin,  \et  senti- 
ment rather  than  kinship  was  the  basis  of  llieir  organization. 
The  name  Frank  meant  '\free"  —  not  in  the  modern  sense  of 
free,  i.  e.,  not  enslaved,  but  in  the  ancient  sense  i)(  free,  i.  e., 
not  inferior  to  a  seigneur,  not  bound  by  fealt)-  to  a  superior; 
in   other   words,  they   recognized   no  lords  as   their    superiors 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  3 

because  they  were  lords,  a  confederated  nobility,  themselves. 
So  the  Franks  when  they  conquered  Gaul,  named  it  France, 
and  became  the  nobility  of  that  country.  Spreading  out  in 
later  times,  under  William  the  Conqueror,  with  his  Normans 
of  similar  blood,  they  became  as  well  the  nobihty  of  Eng- 
land, Scotland,  Ireland  and  Wales,  as  the  old  records  show, 
and  every  royal  family  on  the  throne  of  Western  Europe  of 
to-day  is  derived  from  the  confederation  of  the  Franks,  either 
from  those  who  remained  in  Germany  or  from  those  who 
settled  in  France.  There  may  be  some  who  object  and 
speak  of  the  Normans  as  furnishing  a  large  coterie  to  the 
British  nobility,  but  the  Normans  themselves  for  two  genera- 
tions had  been  affiliated  with  the  Franks  in  France.  The 
Franks  continued  their  principle  of  an  armed  nobility  —  of 
Free  Knights  —  when  they  constituted  the  Order  of  Chivalry 
—  the  noblest  organization  which  ever  existed,  which  extended 
from  France  over  Christendom,  which  "caused  the  heart  to 
expand  like  a  flower  in  the  sunshine,  beautified  glory  with 
generosity  and  smoothed  even  the  rugged  brow  of  War." 
The  principle  of  this  Chivalry  became  the  principle  of  their 
descendants  and  gives  to  family  history  its  greatest  value  as 
a  means  of  reenforcing  the  same  sentiment  in  the  race  by 
the  record  of  its  honors  and  distinctions. 

The  difference  between  this  nobility  of  tljie  Frankish  insti- 
tution and  that  of  the  Anglo-Saxons  is  in  the  difference 
between  the  meaning  of  nobility  in  ancient  France  and  in 
England.  In  France  wealth  added  nothing  to  nobility. 
Indeed,  as  Montesquieu  said  :  "  All  is  lost  when  the  lucra- 
tive profession  of  the  note-shaver  and  speculator  by  its  riches 
becomes  a  profession  of  honor."  In  England,  nobility  cannot 
exist  without  wealth  to  maintain  it.  Again,  in  ancient 
France,  if  a  family  is  noble,  all  its  members  and  all  their 
descendants  in  the  family  name  are  of  the  noblesse,  while  the 
eldest  line  male  bears  the  title  and  inherits  the  manor-house. 
In  modern  PIngland,  if  a  family  is  noble,  only  the  eldest  son, 


4  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

the  possessor  of  the  title,  is  noble  ;  the  younger  sons  and 
their  offspring  do  not  in  any  way  belong  to  the  nobility,  but 
are  allowed  to  sink  into  the  commonality,  and,  after  a  few 
generations,  cease  to  participate  in  any  distinctions  of  the 
eldest  line.  Again,  the  Anglo-Saxons,  with  a  comvicrcia! 
cynicism  that  is  appallijig,  load  a  tax  on  the  honors  and 
armorials  of  families,  while  the  French  monarchy  granted 
exemptions  and  privileges. 


CADET   LINE   MALE  OF  THE   SEIGNEURS 

DE   FORSATH,  VICOMTES    DE   FRONSAC 


ARMS    BEFORE     I 488 

In  the  line  of  Charlemagne  and  descended  from  the  first 
Seigneur  de  Forsath,  Vicomte  de  Fronsac,  was  : 

The  Cadet  de  Forsatfi,  who  in  1236  accompanied  the 
Princess  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Raymond  l^erenger,  Comte  de 
Provence,  on  her  journey  to  P^ngland  to  become  the  wife  of 
King  Henry  III'.      His  son  : 

William  de  P'orsath  (s])elled  Frisaith  in  Stoddart's 
"  ScottisJi  Anns")  took  oath  of  fealty  to  King  PZdward  I  in 
1296.     His  son  : 

Rorert  de  P'orsyth,  moved  into  Stirlingshire,  Scotland, 
and  his  son  : 

Osbert  de  P'orsyth,  was  among  those  who  supported  the 
pretensions  of  Robert  de  Bruce  to  the  throne  of  Scotland, 
5 


6  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

and  after  the  Battle  of  Bannockburn  received  for  fealty  from 
that  personage  who  had  become  king  of  Scotland  :  "  One 
hundred  solidates  in  terras  tenement©  de  Salkill  in  the  Sheriff- 
dom of  Stirling."  The  pedigree  of  his  family  is  given  partly 
in  Stoddart's  ''Scottish  Ai'ins."  His  sons  were:  Robert 
(below)  a*id  William,  baillee  of  Edinburgh  1364. 

Robert  de  Forsyth,  son  of  Osbert,  Constable  of  Stirling 
Castle  for  the  king  in  1368.  A  report  of  his  rendering  the 
customs  of  Stirling  to  the  king  is  in  the  Exchequer  Ro'lls  of 
Scotland,  as  well  as  his  receiving  lOO^  per  annum  from  the 
king  for  the  lands  of  Polmaise-Marischall,  County  Stirling. 
His  son  was  : 

John  de  Forsyth,  who  succeeded  his  father  as  Crown 
officer  at  Stirling,  mentioned  in  the  Exchequer  Rolls  in  1379. 
His  son : 

William  de  Forsyth,  who  succeeded  his  father  as  Crown 
officer  at  Stirling,  mentioned  in  the  Exchequer  Rolls  of  1399. 
His  sons  were :  Robert  (below)  and  William,  baron  of  Nydie, 
in  Fyfeshire. 

[In  1492  the  arms  of  For.syth,  baron  of  Nydie,  appear  in  the  Heraldic 
MS.  of  Sir  James  Balfour,  Lyon  King  of  Arms  for  Scotland.  The 
arms  are  described  as :  "  Gules,  a  cheveron  engrailed  argent,  between  3 
grififins  segreant  or."  Again,  in  the  MS.  of  1603,  the  arms  of  Forsvth 
of  Nydie  are  given  as  :  •'  Or,  3  griffins  segreant  azure,  armed  and  mem- 
bered  vert."  In  Sir  David  Lindsay's  MS.  of  1542,  "argent,  a  cheveron 
engrailed  gule,  between  3  griffins  segreant  vert."  The  last  of  this 
branch  of  the  family  recorded  in  Fyfeshire  as  holding  the  barony  is 
Alexander  Forsyth,  baron  of  Nydie  in  1604.] 

Robert  de  Forsyth,  son  of  W^illiam,  the  Crown  officer 
at  Stirling,  obtained  the  barony  of  Dykes  in  County  Ean- 
ark.  His  name  is  attached  as  witness  to  a  charter,  in 
1429,  of  Robert  Keith,  Earl  Marischall  of  Scotland.  His 
sons  were  :  John  (below)  and  Thomas,  canon  of  Glasgow  in 
1487. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  7 

John  de  Forsyth,  son  of  Robert,  baron  of  Dykes,  ac- 
quired the  lands  of  Gilcairnstorm,  County  Aberdeen.  He 
married  a  daughter  of  Sir  James  Douglas.     His  son  was  : 

David  de  Forsyth,  lord  of  Dykes  (1488).  He  was  the 
last  of  the  family  to  bear  the  ancient  arms  of  the  Seigneurs 
de  Forsath  (de  Fronsac),  which  are  described  in  Stoddart's 
"Scottish  Anns":  "Argent,  between  3  cross-crosslets,  gules, 
a  fesse  vert  charged  with  3  lozenges  of  the  field."  His  son 
was  : 

David  de  Forsyth,  lord  of  Dykes  in  1507.  His  sons 
were  :  John  (below),  James,  lord  of  the  Monastery  of  Dum- 
blane  in  1560,  and  Henry,  rector  of  Munnymusk  in  1642. 

John  de  Forsyth,  son  of  David,  lord  of  Dykes  and  of 
Hallhill  in  1 540.  In  1543  he  transferred  his  estate  of  Glen- 
cairnstorm  to  Lord  Gordon  of  Pitwig.  He  married  in  France, 
Louise  de  Ravenel,  a  descendant  of  the  Chevalier  Pierre  de 
Ravenel,  Seigneur  of  Broys,  Saint  Remy  and  Saint  Martin 
de  Nepz  in  1440,  whose  arms  were:  "Gules,  6  crescents 
along  the  fiancs  of  the  shield,  2,  2  and  2  each  surmounted  by 
a  star,  or,  and  in  the  base  of  the  shield  another  star  of  the 
same."      His  son  was  : 

David  de  Forsyth,  lord  of  Dykes,  in  1571,  born  in 
P'rance.  According  to  the  Act  of  Scotch  Parliament  (p.  79, 
1594),  it  recites  a  commission  formerly  given  to  David  P"or- 
syth  of  Dykes,  to  have  charge  of  assessing  the  beer  and  malt 
tax.  His  children  were:  i.  Marguerite,  married  Capt.  Jehan 
Denys  of  Honfleur,  P^ ranee ;  2,  James,  of  Dykes,  Commis- 
sioner of  Glasgow,  who  died  without  issue ;  3,  William 
(below) ;  4,  Matthew,  laird  of  Auchengrey,  an  advocate ; 
5,  Robert,  laird  of  Failzerton  in  County  Ayr,  an  officer 
in  the  French  service,  who  spelled  the  name  Forsaith. 
He  married  in  P'rance  a  lady  of  the  name  of  Chabot, 
and  had  a  son,  Capt.  James  Forsaith,  at  one  time  in  the 
French  service,  but  who  was  a  prisoner  of  war  in  England 
in    1654,   escaping  the    17th    May   of  that    same  year,    who 


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had  married  his  cousin  at  Honfleur,  France,  Marguerite 
Denys  de   Fronsac. 

William  Forsyth,  son  of  David,  lord  of  Dykes,  was 
commissioner  to  parliament  for  Forres  in  1621.  His  children 
were  :  i,  William,  whose  daughter  Barbara  married  Baron 
Rello.  The  special  returns  of  Lanark  Januar)-  18,  1640,  has 
the  following  :  "  Heres  William  Forsyth  de  Dykes,  patris,  in 
40  solidates  terrarum  antiqui  extentus  de  Gayne,  40  solidates 
de  Untheos,  infra  dominium  de  Newburgh  et  baroniiim  de 
Munckland."  2,  John  (below) ;  3,  James,  from  whom  are  the 
Forsyths  of  Cromarty  and  Elgin  (see  p.  26). 

John  Forsyth,  son  of  William,  member  of  Parliament  for 
Cullen  and  one  of  the  signers  of  the  commission  to  meet  the 
English  parliament  in  1652  He  married  a  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Livingston  of  Kilsyth.  His  sons  were  :  Rev.  James 
of  Tailzerton,  County  Stirling,  and  Walter,  provost  of  the 
college  of  Glasgow. 


FORSYTH    OF   TAILZERTON 

Rev.  James  Forsvth,*  of  Tailzerton  (son  of  John  and 
Miss  Livingston,  Forsyth,  see  p.  8),  inherited  the  lands  of 
Tailzerton  and  Kilsyth  Easter  from  his  mother.  He  was 
minister  to  the  church  at  Airth  in  1661,  and  to  that  at 
Stirling  in  1665.  He  married,  ist,  a  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Bruce.f  Laird  of  Gavell,  cadet  of  Bruce  of  Airth  through  a 
daughter  of  Sir  William  de  Airth  of  that  ilk,  2d,  Marion 
Elphinstone.      Issue,  a  son  : 

James  Foksvth,J  his  successor,  of  Tailzerton,  Member  of 
the  Council  of  Stirling,  in  company  with  the  Duke  of  Hamil- 
ton,   Earl  of  Calender,  Lords   Elphinston  and   Livingston  of 


*  Act.  Scot.  Pari.  (1661-5). 

t  General  Armory  (Burke),  vide  Bruce  and  Airth.  Rev.  James  Forsyth  was  a 
famous  preacher.     Sermons  published  at  London,  1666. 

I  Ret.  Scot.  Abbrev.  Inq.  Spec.  Stirling  (277),  Sept.  i,  1676  :  •'  Heres  tallia  et  pro- 
visionis  Magistri  Jacobi  Forsyth  de  Tailzertoune,  magistri  vobi  Dei  apud  ecclesium  de 
Stirling  ...  in  terris  de  Polinais,  vocatis  Polinais-Tailzertoun  pro  principali.  ter- 
ris  de  Kilsyth  :  Easter  in  speciale  warrantum  earundam." 

9 


lO  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Kilsyth,  the  Earl  of  Mar  being  the  convenor  (1685).     In  1696 
he  sat  in  Parliament,  as  "  Forsyth  of  Gavell."     Children  : 
I.   Rebecca  *  11.    Williaiii,  see  below. 

William  FoRSVTHf  (son  of  James  Bruce  Forsyth,  as 
above)  was  born    1687;  granted  freedom  of  Glasgow,  1735  ; 

married     Elspet,    daughter    of  Gerard     of    W'alkerhill, 

County   Aberdeen.     A  son  was  : 

William  Forsyth,  born  December  18,  1721  ;  granted  free- 
dom of  Glasgow,  1746;  married  Jean,  daughter  of  George 
Phynn,|  I^ord  of  the  Corse  of  Monelly.      Issue  : 

1.  George,  born  April   2,  1756;  married  a  Miss  Tay- 

brook. 

2.  William,  born  April   5,  1756.      His  daughter  mar- 

ried Prof.  Means,  D.D.,  and  was  mother  of  Rev. 
W.  Means,  D.D.,  of  Disblair,  County  Aberdeen. 

3.  Alexander,^  born  November  17,  1758. 

4.  James,  born  June   23,  1759;   Captain  of  Dragoons; 

married   Ann,  daughter  of  John,  9th  Baron   Col- 
ville.ll 

5.  Thomas,   born    March,    1761,    presented    by    Lord 

Nelson,  February  2,  1802,  with  his  picture,  now 
at  the  Quebec  Garrison  Club. 

6.  John  (of  whom  hereafter).      See  Forsyth  of  Eccles- 

greig  Castle. 
y.  Joseph,  horw  June  24,    1764;   came  from   Huntley, 
County  Aberdeen,   to    Kingston,    Canada,  about 
1787;    married    Alice,  daughter    of    Maj.  James 


*Inq.  Spec.  Stirling  (342),  April  26,  1699:  "  Heres  tallia  et  provisionis,  Jacob! 
Forsyth,  alias  Bruce  de  Gavell,  patris  in  terris  de  Polinais  hunc  vocatis  Polinais-Tail- 
zertoun  pro  principali,  et  in  speciale  warrantiim  eanindam  in  terris  de  Kilsytli  : 
Easter." 

jEcclesgreig  MSS.:  Crest  of  Tailzertoii,  a  demi  griffin  vert,  armed  and  nienibered  gii. 
Motto:  "  Restaurator  Ruiniae." 

J  Another  daughter  of  (ieo.  I'hynn  was  mother  to  Kight  lion.  I'.dward  I^lhce, 
M.P. 

§  Ecclesgreig  MSS. 

II  Burke's  Peerage  (Colville), 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  II 

Robbins,    R.  A.       He    was    Colonel    of    Militia. 
Issue  : 

a.  William,  died  unmarried. 

b.  James  Bell,  born  December  25,  1803  ;  married  in 

1828  Fanny,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Matthew 
Bell  of  Quebec,  whose  father  and  grandfather 
were  of  Berwick  on  Tweed,  and  had  : 
I,  Col.  Joseph  Bell  (see  p.  80),  2,  John  Bell  and 
James  Bell  died  young,  3,  Fanny  Bell,  mar- 
ried John  Burstall  of  Quebec  [whose  chil- 
dren are  John  Forsyth  Burstall,  London  and 
Quebec,  and  Capt.  Harry  Burstall  of  the 
Royal  Canadian  Artillery  in  1903,  serving 
with  the  South  African  Constabulary  in  com- 
mand of  the  District  of  Rustanburg,  Trans- 
vaal. He  has  been  mentioned  four  times  for 
bravery  and  coolness  in  the  fields,  especially 
by  Lord  Roberts  and  Lord  Kitchener], 
4,  Frances,  5,  Edith,  6,  Amy,  7,  Alice,  8, 
Mabel  Kate,  married  John  G.  Ross  of  the 
Highlands. 

c.  Eueretta     Jane,     married     William     Forsyth     of 

Ecclesgreig. 

d.  John  Richardson  of  Kingston,  returned  to  the  fam- 

ily house  at  Huntley,  which  he  inherited.      He 
married  his  cousin,  Louisa  Forsyth,  and  has  issue. 

e.  Mary  Ann,  married  David  Burnet,  Major  of  Que- 

bec  Cavalry   in   Rebellion    of    1837-8,   whose 
residence,  "  Etrick,"  is  named  from  his  ances- 
tral place  in  County  Aberdeen. 
/.  Thomas,  Captain  3 2d  Foot,  served  in  the  Rebel- 
lion of  1837-8. 
8.  Robert*    born    1766;    Ensign    6ist    Foot,    1783; 

*  Record  of  Services  of  Ma j.  Robert  Forsyth,  60th  Rifles.     No.  7353.     F.  214.     War 
Office.     London,  England. 


FORSYTH    BE    FRONSAC 

68th  Foot,    1785  ;   72d  Foot,    1785  ;    Lieutenant 
72d  Foot,  1787;   Captain   112th  Foot,  1795;  2d 
Battalion   90th    Foot,    1795;    60th    Foot,    1795; 
Major  60th  Foot,  1797  ;  retired  from  service  by 
the  sale  of  his  commission,  March  6,  1802  ;  died 
1824. 
9.  David,*  born  September  2,  1767;   married  a  Miss 
Jackson,    of     Kendall,    Westmoreland,    England. 
Issue  : 
a.   William,  married  Susan,  daughter  of  Judge  Leigh 
(sister  of  Maj.  H.  Leigh,  98th  Foot),  of  Madras 
Presidency. 
b    James,  Lieut.  R.A. 

c.  George. 

d.  Henry. 

c.  Emily,  married  William  Skinner,  Barrister, 
nephew  of  Right  Rev.  William  Skinner,  D.D., 
Lord  Primate  of  Scotland  and  Bishop  of 
Aberdeen. 

10.  Morris,  born  January  27,   1771  ;    minister    to    the 

church  at    Mortlach ;    married   Isabella,  daughter 
of  James  Donaldson,  of  Kinairdie. 

11.  Margaret,  born  May  3,  1777. 

■■  Ecclesgreig  MSS. 


#, 


\ 


FORSYTH  OF  ECCLESGREIG   CASTLE 

COUNTY    KINCARDINE,   SCOTLAND 

[By  royal  license  the  Forsyths  of  Ecclesgreio;  added  the  name  of 
Grant  in  1S24,  and  quartered  the  Grant  arms  with  that  of  Forsyth.] 

John  Forsyth,  see  p.  10  (son  of  William  and  Jean 
Phynn),  was  born  December  8,  1762.  He  came  to  New 
York  about  the  beginning  of  the  American  Revolution,  but 
would  not  renounce  his  allegiance  to  the  king,  and  was  one  of 
the  United  Empire  Loyalists  who  settled  in  Montreal  before 
1786.  He  was  in  partnership  there  as  a  ship-owner  and 
foreign  merchant  wdth  another  United  Empire  Loyalist,  Hon. 
John  Richardson,  President  of  the  Lachine  Canal  Construc- 
tion Company.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Charles 
Grant,  third  son  of  Grant,  Laird  of  Kinworth.      Children  : 

I.  Will  1(7711,  born  February  10,  1804;  succeeded  his 
uncle,  Frederic  Grant,  to  the  estates  of  Eccles- 
greig;  married  Eueretta,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Forsyth,  Kingston,  Canada.      Issue  : 

a.  Frederic  Grant,  born   September  2,  1836;   Cap- 

tain 3d  Hussars,  A.D.C  to  His  Excellency,  the 
Marquis  of  Lome,  Governor-General  of  Canada  ; 
afterwards  A.D.C.  to  Her  Majesty  Queen  Vic- 
toria ;  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Col. 
William  A.  Orr,  C.B.,  of  Bridgetown. 

b.  John    Joseph,   born   October  23,    1840;    Captain 

46th  P"oot  ;  married  Annie,  daughter  and  heir- 
ess of  John  Littleton,  of  Trewin,  St.  Germain, 
Cornwall,  England. 
<:.  William,  born  May  26,  1843  ;  Captain  8 2d  Foot, 
married  Minnie,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  Beverley 
13 


14  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Robinson,  Lieut. -Governor  of  Ontario,  and  son 
of  Sir  John  Beverley  Robinson,  Bart. 

d.   George  James,  born  March  7,  1847. 

c.  Annie  Gregory,  married  W'ilHam  Owen  Bridge- 
stock,  Gettydyvyl,  Carmarthenshire,  Wales. 

/.   Eueretta  Alice. 

2.  John  B/ackuiood,   born   November  21,    1805;    mar- 

ried Mary,  daughter  of   Samuel  Gerrard,  of  Mon- 
treal.    Issue  : 

a.  John  Gerrard,  Major  57th  Foot  ;  see  p.  d>-/ . 

b.  Frederic    Arthur,  born   April   2,    1830;    Captain 

5th  Fusileers,  afterwards  Lieut. -Colonel. 

c.  Margaret,    born    March    6,    1831;    married    Rev. 

C.  N.  Williams,  M.A.,  Rector  of  St.  Andrews, 
Heresford,  England. 

d.  Eueretta  Vivian,  born  December  8,  183  i. 

3.  Jane,  married   Capt.  George  Gregory,    19th    Light 

Dragoons. 


I 


FORSYTH    OF   FAILZERTON,  COUNTY   AYR 

Walter  Forsyth  (son  of  John,  see  p.  8)  was  Provost  of 
the  College  and  Subdeaneries  of  Glasgow,  mentioned  in  the 
Acts  of  Scottish  Parliament  for  1678.  He  married  Mar- 
guerite, daughter  of  Capt.  James  F'orsaith,  of  French  marine, 
by  Marguerite  Denys,  daughter  of  Gov.  Nicolas  Denys, 
Vicomte  de  Fronsac  in  Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada.  His 
sons  were  James  and  Alexander  (see  p.  19). 

James  Forsayth,  born  Ayrshire,  1678,  captured  during 
King  William's  Irish  Campaign  (at  age  of  13  years),  with  a 
relative  who  favored  the  cause  of  the  Stuarts.  He  himself 
in  I  71 5  was  said  to  have  been  a  captain  in  the  Earl  of  Marr's 
uprising  for  the  Stuarts  and  obliged  to  leave  the  country  with 
his  family,  going  to  Ireland.     His  wife  was  Margaret,  daughter 


l6  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

of  Hugh  Montgomerie,  of  County  Ayr,  Major  of  Royalist 
Cavalry,  who  had  been  a  "Signer  for  the  King  in  1660." 
His  children  were:  I,  Matthew  (below)  ;  H,  Alexander;  HI, 
Thomas,  of  County  Cork  (see  p.  22). 

I.  Hon.  Matthew,*  born  County  Ayr,  1699  (see  p.  68)  ; 
married  Esther,  daughter  of  Robert  Graham.  He  died  1790. 
His  children  were  : 

1.  Matthew,  born  in  Ireland,  was  a  Loyalist  and  went  off 
as  a  physician  in  the  Royal  Navy. 

2.  David,!  born  in  Ireland.  Ensign  in  Chester  Company, 
ist  New  Hampshire  Regiment;  wounded,  Ticonderoga,  and 
died  May  21,  1778. 

3.  Jonathan, I  born  in  Ireland.  Soldier  in  Chester  Com- 
pany, I  St  New  Hampshire  Regiment;  killed,  llconderoga, 
July  9,  1777. 

4.  Esther,  died  unmarried. 

5.  William, §  born  in  Ireland,  1740.  Ensign  in  the  Royal 
Provincial  Regiment,  1763-7;  married  Jane  Wilson  (see  p. 
71).      He  died  in  1808.      His  children  were: 

a.  Matthew,  settled  in  what  is  now  Manchester,  N.  H. 

b.  James,   a    physician,   an   alumnus   of    Dartmouth 

College,  a  son  of  whom.  Dr.  F.  F.  Forsyth, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Weymouth 
(Mass.)  Historical  Society,  and  a  contributor 
to  the  History  of  Weymouth. 

c.  Da\id,  Captain  of  the  Deering  Rifles. 

d.  Thomas, II   born  September   i,  1775    (see  p.  72). 

*"  Chase's  Hist,  of  Chester,"  pp.  524,  109,  127,  129,  130,  140,  142,  144,  152,  259,  456, 
621,  231;  "Town  Papers,  N.  H.,"  Vol,  XL,  p.  309;  Vol.  IX.,  pp.  109,  115;  "State 
Papers,  N.  H.,"  Vol.  IX.,  pp.  109,  115;  "Granite  Monthly,"  Vol.  VIII.  The  name  is 
spelled  on  the  Chester  Records  Forsayth,  Forsaith,  and  Forsyth.  Some  descendants 
follow  the  first,  others  the  last,  way  of  spelling.  He  liad  an  estate  in  Ireland  for  which 
his  descendants  lodged  papers. 

t"  Hist.  Col.  N.  H.,"  Vol.  VII.,  p.  83;  "  Chase's  Hist,  of  Chester."  p.  524;  "State 
Papers,  N.  H  ,"  Vol,  XIV.,  pp.  554,  034. 

%  "  Chase's  Hist,  of  Chester,"  pp.  377,  yn). 

§"  Provincial  Papers,  N.  H.,"  Vol.  VI  ,  p.  767;  "  Town  I'apers,  N\  11.,"  Vol.  -XL,  pp. 
493,  497,  498;  Vol.  IX.,  p. -759;  "  Hist,  of  Hillsborough  County  (N.  H.)." 

II  "  Burke's  Colonial  Gentry,"  Vol.  II.  "  Dufaure's  Notes  sur  les  Emigre's."  "Amer 
ica  Heraldica,  American  Ancestry,"  Vol.  VII. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  I? 

He  married   Sallie  Pray.*      His  children  were  : 

i.  Jane,  born  1810,  married  R.  P.  Illsley,  of  Port- 
land, whose  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married 
Hon.  Boise  de  Veber,  M.  P.  and  Mayor  of 
St.  John,  N.  B.,  in  1886,  a  descendant 
of  Col.  Gabriel  de  Veber  of  the  Prince  of 
Wales'  American  Regiment  of  1776-83. 

ii.  Hamilton,  born  18  12.  Army  of  Texas,  1834. 
Captain  on  staff  of  Gen.  Mirabeau  B. 
Lamar.     Died,  Galveston,  1839. 

iii.  Sarah  Ann,  born  18 15,  married,  as  second 
wife,  Hon.  W.  P.  Preble,  LL.D.,  Judge  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Maine,  F'irst  Presi- 
dent of  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway  of  Canada 
(1854),  and  U.  S.  Minister  to  the  Nether- 
lands, etc.  They  had  one  son,  Edward, 
married  to  Caroline  S.,  daughter  of  George 
Capron,  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

iv.  Eleanor,  born  18 17,  married  Samuel  Sawyer, 
of  Portland.  Their  son,  George,  died  at 
New  Orleans,  1853. 

V.  P'rederic,  Vicomte  de  Fronsac,  of  Montreal 
and  Portland,  born  1819,  see  p.  73.  He 
married  Harriette  Marie,  daughter  of  Maj.- 
Gen.  Joseph  Scott  Jewett,  of  Scarborough 
(see  p.  88).  His  children,  Frederic  Gregory, 
Vicomte  de  Fronsac,  born,  Montreal  (see  p. 
75),  and  Thomas  Scott  (see  p.  80). 

vi.  George,  born  182 1,  Lieutenant  78th  U.  S.  C. 
Troops,  1863,  Assistant  Q.  M.  and  A.  A.  G. 
with  rank  as  Major,  at  camps  at  Washing- 
ton, 1865  ;  customs  officer  at  Sitka,  Alaska, 
afterwards    removed    to     Fresno ;     married 

*  "  Sabine's  American  Loyalists  "  (  Hamilton  ). 

Note.  —  Sallie  Pray,  born   1778.     Admiral  Pray,  born   1746.     Mary   Hamilton,  born 
1760.     Colonel  Hamilton,  born  about  1735. 


I 8  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Albertina,  daughter  of  Capt.  Albert  Jewett, 
of   Portland  ;   their  daughter  Albertina  mar- 
ried Dr.  Macallester,  of  Honolulu, 
vii.   Caroline  Augusta,  born  1823  ;  married  James 
Albert  Macnabb,  of   Greenock,   Scotland,  a 
cousin  of  Sir  A.  N.  Macnabb,  of  Canada. 
e.  Robert,  whose  sons  were  Samuel  C.  and  Rodney. 
/   Josiah,    barrister    at    Goffstown,    an    alumnus   of 
Dartmouth   College,  whose  son,  Hon.  William 
L.,  is  justice  of  the  Boston  Municipal  Court 
(1896). 
g.   Hannah,  married  a  Mr.  Paige. 

6.  Robert,*  born  Chester,  1746;  Lieutenant  in  the  War 
of  ^TJ^-'^Z  ;  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Deacon  William 
Tolford,  of  Walnut  Hill.  One  of  his  sons  was  Robert,  who 
married  Sarah  Luvkin.  His  son  Robert  married  Sabrina 
Ramesay,  and  their  son,  James,  was  one  of  the  prominent 
men  in  New  York  State.  He  was  president  of  the  Rens- 
salaer  Polytechnic  Institute  ;  president  of  the  Renssalaer  & 
Saratoga  Railway  ;  president  of  the  Troy  Bridge  Company  ; 
Judge  of  the  County  Court ;  Judge  Advocate  of  Division ; 
author  on  the  Law  of  Contracts,  etc.  He  married,  ist,  a 
daughter  of  Hon.  P^lisha  Tibbetts,  of  New  York  City ;  2d, 
a  Miss  Pumpelley,  of  the  family  of  the  explorer.  His  chil- 
dren were:  i,  Robert,  civil  engineer  and  manager  of  the 
Union  Steel  Company,  of  Chicago,  and  2,  James,  Attorney- 
at-Law,  born  i860,  living  at  Riverside,  the  home  of  the 
Pumpelleys,  in  Owego,  N.  Y. 

7.  Josiah,-]-  born  Chester;  Lieutenant  in  W^ar  of  1776-83; 
married  Kitt^',  daughter  of  Caleb  Richardson. 


*"  Chase's  Hist.  Chester,"  pp.  ii8,  344,  446  ;  "  Provincial  Papers,  N.  H.,"  Vol.  \'n, 
p.  755  ;  "  Town   Papers,  N.  H.,"  Vol.  XHL,  pp.  196,  19S.  751  ;   X'ol.  \I.,  pp.  320,  (185. 

t"  Chase's  Hist.  Chester,"  pp.  231,  n:^,  383,  457,  l^yo:  "  rown  I'apcMs,  N.  IL,"  \„I. 
XL,  p.  315;  "  State  Papers,  N.  H.,"  Vol.  XL,  p.  315. 


Arms  cjf  Fcjksvih  kk  Tailzeki 


Arms  of  Fors\  th  of  Failzerton 


FORSYTH   OF  BOSTON 


Capt.  Alexander   Forsyth,   son   of   Walter,   Provost  of 
Glasgow  College  and   Subdeaneries,  by  wife,  his  cousin,  Mar- 
garet,  daughter  of  Capt.   James,  and   Marguerite   (Denys  de 
Fronsac)   Forsaith   (see  p.  i  5),  was  born,  Failzerton  Manour, 
Ayrshire,  1689  (see  p.  jj),  prominent  in  Boston  Chronicles  ; 
married,  ist,  Miss  Elizabeth  Evans,  of  Boston,  December  12, 
I  7 17;   2d,  Miss   Deborah  Briggs,  also  of  Boston,  about  1730. 
Returned  to  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  with  his  wife   Deborah,  and 
son  John,  in  1763.      His  children,  born  in  Boston,  were: 
I.     Alexander,  born  October  20,  1721. 
II.      Robert,  born  August  18,  1723. 
19 


20  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

III.  JoJui,  born  June  8,  1726;  died  September  8,  1727. 

IV.  JoJin,  born  November  5,  173  i  (see  below). 

John  Forsyth,  son  of  Capt.  Alexander,  as  above,  filled 
several  offices  in  Boston,  in  the  public  trust,  before  returning 
to  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  with  his  father  and  mother  in  1763, 
among  them  being  that  of  surve}'or  of  lumber  and  clerk  of 
the  city  market.  After  he  returned  to  Scotland,  he  entered 
the  royal  army  stationed  in  Britain  and  attained  the  rank  of 
captain.      His  son  born  in  Ayrshire  was  : 

John  Forsyth,  born  1770;  died  18 15.  He  was,  like  many 
of  his  family,  inclined  to  the  military  profession  and,  like  his 
father,  attained  the  rank  of  captain  in  the  British  Army. 
His  children,  born  in  Ayrshire,  were: 
I.  John,  born  1805  ;  died  1892. 
II.  William  (see  below). 
III.  James,  born  18  10;  died  1858,  in  Ayr,  Scotland. 
William  Forsyth,  son  of  Capt.  John,  as  above,  born, 
Ayrshire,  November  8,  1807  ;  died,  Roxbury,  Boston,  Decem- 
ber 12,  1876.  He  came  to  Boston  with  his  brother  John  in 
1828,  but  John  returned  to  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  in  1835. 
William  settled  in  Brookline,  a  suburb  of  Boston,  where  most 
of  his  children  were  born,  but  later  he  resided  in  Roxbury, 
now  a  part  of  Boston,  where  he  died.  For  about  a  quarter  of 
a  century  he  was  connected  with  the  Boston  Belting  Company, 
the  original  manufacturers  of  vulcanized  rubber-goods  in  the 
United  States.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Hamilton 
Bennett,  Fsquire,  of  near  Buxton,  England,  who  was  born 
November  15,  181 5;  died,  Roxbury,  Boston,  September  8, 
i860.  He  was  a  man  of  the  highest  character  for  integrity, 
a  characteristic  which  all  his  children  inherited.  His  children 
were  : 

I.       William,    born    November   9,    1839;    died    July    i, 
1877. 

II.     Jolni  Hamilfoii,  l^orn  March  9,  1842.  superintendent, 
Boston  Belting  Compan\-. 


WILLIAM    FORSYTH 


FOR3YTH    DE    FRONSAC  21 

III.  Anne  Jane,  born  November  i8,  1843  i  ^^^^  Septem- 
ber 7,  1848. 

IV.  Margaret   Bennett,    born    August    24,    1845  ;    died 
April  8,  1890. 

V.      Mary  Elizabeth,   born    December    11,    1847;    died 
September  5,  1848. 

VI.     James  Bennett,  born  February  2,  1850  (see  p.  78), 
general  manager,  Boston  Belting  Company. 

VII.      Thomas   Alexander,    born    April    12,    1852,    manu- 
facturing agent,  Boston  Belting  Company. 

VIII.      George  Henry,  born  November  27,  1854,  assistant 
manager,  Boston  Belting  Company. 


Arms  of  Hamilton- 
Dukes  OF  Hamilton  and  Abercorn 
(See  pp.  20,  72  and  80) 


Arms  of  Bennett 

Earls  of  Tankarville 

(See  pp.  20  and  79) 


LOYAL  ;a  la  MORTE,j 


FORSAYETH   OF  WHITECHURCH   HOUSE 

CAPPAGH,  COUNTY  WATERFORD,  IRELAND 

Thomas,*  died  in  Cork,  Ireland,  in  1768,  son  of  Capt. 
James  (see  p.  15).  Mary,  his  widow,  survived  him,  leaving  a 
private  estate.      Issue  : 

I.   Robert,   merchant     in     Cork;     married     Catherine, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Campion,  Esq.,  and  had  : 
a.  Thomas,  married  Mary  Ann,  relative  of  St.  John 
Grant,  of  Kilmurray,  Fermo)-.      Issue  : 
i.   T?^^/.'^'/-/,  born    1807;   curate   in  Bristol;   married 

r^anny  ;  died  1840,  leaving  a  daughter, 

Frances   Jane,    author    of     poems    "  Armos 
Waters." 
ii.    Thomas  Gifford,  born    1808;    H.M.   Attache 
to  the  Embassy  at   Morocco ;  musician  and 
poet;    married    ist,    Rose    D'Aguilar;    2d, 

*  Arms  of  Failzerton  confirmed  to  this  family  :  Crest ;  a  griffin's  liead  between  two 
wings  displayed,  vert.     Motto  :  "  Loyal  an  Mart." 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  23 

Lucy   H.,  daughter  of  Colonel  O'Toole,  of 

Wicklow. 
iii.    Catherine. 
iv.   Mary. 
V.  JoJin    Braharjon,    artist,    settled    at     Bunbury, 

Western  Australia,  in  1845. 
vi.   Eliza. 

2.  John,  born    1735  ;     Pensioner   at    Trinity   College, 

Dublin,  1749;  Fellow  1762,  with  degree  of  D.D.; 
Archdeacon  of  Cork,  1781  ;  fine  classical  scholar  ; 
died  unmarried,  1 78 1 . 

3.  Margaret,  died  unmarried. 

4.  Samuel,  entered   H.M.   Customs   Service  at   Cork, 

1752  ;  appointed  by  the  Viceroy,  Inspector  Gen- 
eral   of    Customs    for    Ireland,   Dublin,   July  24, 

1776;     married     Margaret    ;    died     1801  ; 

buried  at  St.  Ann's,  Dublin.     Issue  : 

a.  John,    A.B.,    appointed  Vicar    of    Leighmoney, 

March  30,    1826;  priest  at   Cloyne,  Sept.   29, 
1786;   in    1803  was   "Threshers   Lecturer "  in 
Cork;    died    Sept.     16,    1820;    buried    at    St. 
Nicholas,  Cork.      He  married  Anne  Courtenay, 
and  had  : 
i.    Thomas,  educated  at  Trinity  College,  where  he 
distinguished    himself    by    classical    attain- 
ments ;    barrister  at  law ;  Queen's  counsel ; 
Recorder  of  Cork  ;  died  1879. 
ii.   Samuel. 
iii.   Robert. 
iv.    Charlotte. 
V.    William. 
vi.  John,  Curate  of  Upper  Shandon,  Cork. 

b.  Robert,  A.B.,  scholar  at  Trinity  College,  1780; 

priest  at  Cloyne,  1784;   rector  of  Kilfithmone, 
County      Tipperary,      1798;      married      Jane, 


24 '  FORSYTH    DE    FROXSAC 

daughter    of    Hugh    Evans,    Esq.,  of    Cashel. 
He  was  author  of  the  "History  of  our   Lord 
and  Saviour."      Issue  : 
i.    Samuel,  settled  in   HaUfax,  N.  S.     Captain  in 

the  British  Army  there, 
ii.  Robert. 

iii.  RicJiard  Martin,*  studied  medicine  in  DubHn 
and  Edinburgh;  degree  of  M.D.,  Edinburgh, 
1827;  degree  of  Surgery,  Glasgow,'  1828; 
at  Hotel  Dieu  and  other  hospitals,  Paris ; 
settled  at  Templemore,  Ireland ;  married 
Kate  Craven,  daughter  of  W'm.  Chadwick, 
Esq.,  of  Ballinard,  Tipperary  ;  his  children 
were  : 

Richard  William,  who  entered  H.M.  Mili- 
tary Service  in  1863,  served  in  India; 
retired  in  1884,  as  brigade  surgeon 
and  lieutenant-colonel ;  married  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Rev.  J.  Baird,  had 
issue  :  Amy,  Kate,  Gordon  William, 
Noel  Francis,  settled  at  Whitechurch 
House,  Cappagh,  County  W'aterford, 
Ireland. 
Kate  P" ranees. 

John  C.   C,  entered   medical   profession ; 
died     of     fever     in    forest     of    West 
Africa   while    emploN'cd    in   an   expe- 
dition. 
Jane   Iv,  married    Dr.  Robert   '\ .  Huston, 
no  issue, 
iv.  John,  commanded  the  "Indian  Queen  "  in  the 
Merchant    Marine,   and    made    the    shortest 


*Named  for  his  uncle  Col.  Richard  Martin,  .M.  P.,  of  liallinahinch,  County  Gahray, 
Ireland,  and  of  the  same  family  as  Martin  of  Tullyra  Castle,  Gahvay,  so  celebrated  in  the 
annals  of  Ireland.     lie  was  the  pioneer  of  the  legislation  against  cruelty  to  animals  in 

the  I'arlianifnt  of  (irwU  Britain. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  25 

voyage  then  known   between   Liverpool  and 
Barbadoes. 

c.  Charlotte,  married  Richard  Martin,  Esq. 

d.  Elizabeth,  married  the  Rev.  Charles  Smith. 
c.  A  daughter,  unmarried. 


FORSYTH   OF  CROMARTY   AND   ELGIN 

James  Forsyth,  3d  son  of  William  of  Dykes  (see  p.  8) 
left  quite  a  posterity,  who  are  considerably  scattered.  One 
of  his  sons  was  : 

William  Forsyth,  of  Barmuckety,  who  married  Jean 
Thomson.     Their  children  were  : 

I.  James,  married  at  Cromarty,  Sept.  20,  1720,  Katherine 
Morison  ;  died  1739,  leaving: 

I.  Williavi*  merchant  and  magistrate  at  Cromarty, 
born  1 721;  married,  ist,  Mary  Russell;  2d, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Re\-.  Patrick  Grant,  of 
Duthcl,  Strathspey,  incumbent  of  Nigg,  Rosshire. 
Issue  : 

a.  William. 

b.  Patrick. 

c.  James. 

d.  William. 


Life  of  William  Forsyth,  by  Hugh  Miller. 
26 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  2/ 

e.   Isabella. 

f.  Margaret.      All  died  in  infancy. 

g.  John,  born   Cromart}-,    1779;   in  civil   service  of 

Bengal;  married  at  Calcutta,  18  16,  Mary  Ann 
Farmer ;  his  daughter,  Mary  Elizabeth,  born 
Calcutta,  18 1 7,  married  Henry  H.  Harw^ood, 
J. P.  and  D.L.  for  County  Middlesex,  whose 
children  are  Henry  W.  Forsyth  Harwood,  Bar- 
rister of  the  Inner  Temple,  editor  of  the  Gene- 
alogist (1903),  another  son,  and  a  daughter. 

h.   Catharine,  married  Isaac  Forsyth,  of  Elgin. 

/.  Isabella,  married  Alex.  Mackenzie,  Captain  in 
Royal  Marines,  and  grandson  of  Sir  Roderic 
Mackenzie,  2d  Bart,  of  Scatwell. 

2.  Ann,  born  1725. 

3.  JoJin,  settled  at  Dingwall. 

4.  Arthur,  merchant. 
II.      Elspet,  born  1704. 

HI.  Alexander,  born  1707;  merchant  and  magistrate  at 
Elgin;  married,  ist,  Margaret  Ross;  2d,  Ann,  daughter  of 
William  Harrold,  by  wife,  a  Miss  Gordon,  daughter  of  Gor- 
don, laird  of  Cairnfield,  Banffshire.  Mr.  Harrold  was  a  fol- 
lower of  Prince  Charles  Edward  Stuart,  and  was  robbed  of 
everything  by  the  brutal  followers  of  the  brutal  Duke  of 
Cumberland.  Mr.  Forsyth  was  one  of  the  most  prominent 
citizens  of  Elgin.  He  had  21  children,  of  whom  a  few 
were  : 

1.  JoJin,    married    Sophie,    daughter    of    Rev.   Patrick 

Grant,  of  Nigg,  Rosshire,  and  his  daughter  Ann 
married  Adam  Longmore,  of  the  Court  of  Ex- 
chequer, Edinburgh. 

2.  Elizabeth,   married    Thomas    Stephen,    Provost    of 

Elgin. 
2).  Joseph,  born    Elgin;     author    of  the   "Antiquities, 
Arts  and  Letters  of  Italy,"  etc. 


28  FORSYTH    DE    FROXSAC 

4.   Isaac;  author  of   "  Memoire  of    Joseph   Forsyth  "  ; 
married   Catherine,  daughter  of  William  Forsyth, 
of  Cromart)-,  and  had  : 
a.   Elizabeth. 
/;.   Isabella. 
c.   Catherine. 

,'/.  Ann,  married  William  Duncan  Macandrew,  of 
Liverpool  and  Elgin,  whose  sons  are  Major- 
General  Isaac  Forsyth  Macandrew,  of  the 
Bengal  Staff  Corps,  and  William  Macandrew, 
Escjuire. 
r.  Justina,  married  Arthur  Uuff,  Sheriff-clerk  of 
Morayshire. 


FORSYTH    OF   CHESTER   COUNTY,  PA. 


Alexander  Forsyth,  supposed  to  be  son  of  Alexan- 
der, of  Elgin,  merchant  and  magistrate  (see  p.  27),  married 
Margaret,  daughter  of  William  Temple,  of  County  Aberdeen, 
a  partisan  of  the  House  of  Stuart,  to  which  family  he  was 
related,  as  well  as  to  the  Barclays  and  Lord  Gordon,  of  Hunt- 
ley. Their  children  were:  i,  Alexander;  2,  William  [born  at 
Kirkpatrick,  married  Jane  Livingston  in  1788,  and  had  a, 
John,  born  1789  ;  h,  Nancy,  born  1792  ;  c,  Mary,  born  1794  ; 
d,  Jane,  born  1 796 ;  c,  Peter,  born  1 799 ;  /,  Nellie,  born 
1801  ;  g,  Alexander,  born  1803];  3,  James  (went  to  Lon- 
don); 4,  Peter;  5,  Jonathan;  6,  Hugh;  7,  Andrew  (see 
below);  8,  Thomas;  9,  Bartholomew;  10,  Nathaniel;  11, 
Isabella. 

Andrew  Forsyth,  son  of  Alexander,  at  the  age  of  20, 
went  to  London  with  his  brother  James,  who  presented 
him  to  their  relative.  Lord  George  Gordon.  He  accompanied 
Lord  Gordon  to  Philadelphia,  being  employed  b\-  that  nobleman 

29 


30  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

for  seven  years.  Afterwards  he  entered  into  mercantile 
partnership,  finally  doing  business  for  himself.  He  married 
I  St  a  widow,  Cooper,  whose  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth 
Hopewell,  and  had  one  son,  James,  who  died  at  Natchez, 
Miss.,  at  the  age  of  40,  unmarried.  At  her  death  he 
married  for  2d  wife,  Agnes,  daughter  of  Col.  James  Longh- 
ead, by  wife,  Catherine  Finney  (daughter  of  Robert  Finney 
and  Catherine  Fleming,  of  Holland).  James  Longhead  was 
son  of  James  Longhead  and  Miss  Glenn,  daughter  of  Captain 
Glenn  of  the  English  Navy,  who  was  present  at  the  siege  of 
Derry.  Mrs.  Longhead,  daughter  of  Captain  Glenn,  lived  to 
the  age  of  1 18  years,  residing  when  she  died  with  her  daughter, 
Mrs.  McDowell,  in  Chester  County,  Pa.  Their  son,  James 
Longhead,  entered  business  at  Philadelphia  as  burgomaster. 
He  entered  the  war  of  the  American  Revolution,  first  as  a 
dispatch  bearer  for  General  Washington,  then  as  a  colonel  of 
infantry.  When  the  British  troops  occupied  Philadelphia  in 
that  war.  Colonel  Longhead's  wife,  with  those  of  others  who 
were  fighting  against  His  Majesty's  troops,  were  sent  out  of 
the  city,  and  unfortunately  compelled  to  bear  those  hardships 
from  which  even  the  innocent  are  obliged  to  suffer  in  war- 
time—  and  above  all  in  a  civil  war,  like  the  American  Revo- 
lution. Agnes,  the  daughter  of  Colonel  Longhead,  who 
married  Andrew  Forsyth,  could  with  difificulty  obtain  the  con- 
sent of  her  parents  to  her  marriage  with  one  not  an  active 
revolutionist,  at  which  time  her  father  had  returned  to  Phila- 
delphia and  was  elected  Mayor,  and  Lord  Cornwallis  had  sur- 
rendered at  Yorktown  to  the  I^'rcnch  (icneral  de  Rochambeau 
and  the  French  fleet  sent  to  aid  (icncral  Washington  and 
Congress.  One  of  the  princii)al  officers  entertained  by 
Andrew  Forsyth  after  his  marriage  was  the  Marquis  de 
LaFayette.  About  17H5,  Andrew  moved  to  Lebanon  and 
went  into  partnership  with  a  brother  Scot.  .Andrew  died  at 
the  age  of  "j^  in  Danville,  Pa.,  leaving  the  following: 
I .  James. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 


2 .   Ca  then  lie. 
3-  John. 

4.  Elizabeth. 

5.  Williavi  Temple. 

6.  Hellen. 


FORSYTH  OF  NEWBURGH,  N.  Y. 


Three  brothers,  Alexander,  John,  and  a  third  (from  the 
Aberdeen  Forsyths),  sons  hkely  of  Alexander  (see  p.  27),  are 
given  below : 

I.  Alexander,  born  July  5,  1787.  Came  to  Martha's 
Vineyard,  1808.  He  settled  in  Maine,  and  married  at  Farm- 
ington,  Deborah,  daughter  of  Ephraim  Norton,  grand-uncle  of 
Lillian  Nordica,  the  prima  donna.      His  children  were  : 

\ .  James  Brandcr,  born,  Farmington.  Mayor  of 
Chelsea,  Mass.,  two  terms.  He  was  a  physician 
of  high  standing.  He  married  Octavia  Augusta, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Bacon,  president  of  the  Hrantle 
Bank  of  Boston.      His  children  were  : 

a.  Sarah  E.,  married  Allen  E.  Fugles,  M.l).,  surgeon 

U.  S.  N. 

b.  Auuic,  d.  s.  p. 

c.  Margaret  ilopkins,  married  Arthur  Trait,  Boston. 

d.  Isabella,  d.  s.  p. 

3-2 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  33 

2  ^//^;v7/w,  born,  Farmington.  Merchant  in  Gardiner, 
Me. ;  married  Emily  Williamson,  relative  of  Wil- 
liamson, the  historian.      Children  : 

a.  Martha,  married  Charles  Duren,  Chelsea. 

b.  Ale.xander,  born  1875,  Gardiner. 

3.  Elisabeth,  born,    Farmington,   September  3,  1813  ; 

married  Henry  Stone.     Children  : 

a.  Lucy  Augusta. 

4.  George,    born,    Farmington,    July    9,     18 15.     Mer- 

chant ;  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Richardson,  of  Princetown,  Mass.  Children  : 
^7.  Harriette  A.,  married  John  Ouincy  Adams,  of 
Derry,  N.  H.,  now  of  Chelsea,  whose  son, 
William  R.,  married  Addie,  daughter  of  Edwin 
Smyth,  of  East  Boston,  and  has  a  daughter, 
Hester  Forsyth  Adams,  born  1893. 

b.  Isabella  Instance,  d.  s.  p. 

c.  Walter,  born,  Chelsea,  married  Angie  E.,  daughter 

of  Capt.  E.  B.  Winchester,  Boston.     Children  : 
i.  Annabella,  d.  s.  p. 
ii.   Ernest  \\'.,  d.  s.  p. 

d.  James   Brander,  born,  Chelsea,  1855,  of  the  firm 

of  Stone  &  Forsyth,  Devonshire  Street,  Boston  ; 
married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Capt.  Clifton 
Blanchard,  U.  S.  V. 

5.  Alexander,    born,    Farmington,    18 19.      Gentleman 

farmer. 

6.  William,  born,  Farmington,  1822,  d.  s.  p. 

II.      John,  born,  Aberdeen,  1 79 1.      He  came  to  Newburgh, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  married  Janet  Currie.      Children  : 

I.John,  Doctor  of  Divinity  and   LL.D.,   educated  at 

Edinburgh.     Professor  at  Princeton  College,  N.  Y., 

and  Chaplain  at  U.  S.   Military  Academy,  West 

Point;  died  1887,  without  issue. 

2.  Robert  Alexander,   born,   Newburgh,   N.  Y.,  18 14; 


34  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

married   Charlotte   Pierson,  daughter   of   Samuel         ■ 
Williams,  of  Newburgh  ;  died  1873.     Children:  I 

a.  Mary  W.,  married  E.  A.  Wikes,  of  Poughkeepsie, 

and  had  Mary  Forsyth  and  Forsyth  Wikes. 

b.  George    Wallace,    born     1854;     married     Emily 

Vermilye,  daughter  of  John  E.  Burrill,  of  New 
York  city. 

3.  Isabel/a,  born,  Newburgh,  married  Mr.  Little. 

4.  James  Christie,  born,  Newburgh,  married  at  Kings- 

ton, N.  Y.,  Mary  Catherine,  daughter  of  Severyn 
Bruyn,  son  of  Lieut. -Col.  Jacobus  Severyn  Bruyn. 
III.     The  Third   Son  went  to  South  America,  and  one  of 
his  descendants  was  the  late  Faulkner  Forsyth. 


FORSYTH   OF  GEORGIA 


Robert  Forsyth  was  born  in  Scotland,  about  1754.  He 
came  to  Fredericksburgh,  Va.,  before  the  American  Rev- 
olution of  1776-83.  He  became  interested,  like  so  many  in 
the  Southern  Colonies,  in  the  republican  philanstery,  and 
entered  the  army  of  Congress.  He  became  captain  in  Lee's 
Light  Horse,  1776;  Major,  1777;  Deputy  Quartermaster- 
General  of  the  Southern  Army,  1778  ;  and  A.  D.  C.  to  General 
Washington  ;  member  of  the  Virginia  Order  of  Cincinnatus, 
1783;  appointed  U.  S.  Marshal  of  Georgia,  1786;  killed  in 
performance  of  duty,  1794;  buried  with  funeral  honors  by 
the  Order  of  Cincinnatus  ;  a  monument  was  erected  to  his 
memory  at  Augusta,  Ga. ;  Congress  voted  a  sum  of  money 
for  the  education  of  his  children  ;  he  married  Mrs.  Fanny 
(Johnston)  Houston,  a  widow,  sister  to  Judge  Peter  Johnston, 
of  Fredericksburg,  and  aunt  of  Lieut.-Gen.  Joseph  E. 
Johnston,  C.  S.  A.  Issue  : 
a.   Robert,  died,  aged  19. 


2,6  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

d.  John,*  born  in  Fredericksburg,  October  lo,  1780; 
member  of  Society  of  the  Cincinnati ;  ist  Attorney- 
General  of  Georgia,  1808  ;  Representative  of  U.  S. 
Congress,  18 13-18 18;  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to 
Spain,  1 8 19- 1822;  Representative  of  U.  S.  Con- 
gress, 1823-1827;  Governor  of  Georgia,  1 828-1 830  ; 
U.  S.  Senator,  1830-1834;  Secretary  of  State  for 
United  States,  18 34-1 841  ;  died  in  Washington, 
October  22,  1841  ;  introduced  the  culture  of  nan- 
keen cotton  into  America ;  Georgia  erected  a  mon- 
ument to  his  memory  in  the  Congressional  Burying 
Ground  at  Washington  ;  married  Clara,  daughter  of 
Hon.  Josiah  Meigs,  LL.D.,  first  president  of  the 
University  of  Georgia,  and  son  of  Col.  Jonathan 
Meigs  of  the  war  of  1776.     Issue  : 

1.  Julia,  born  1803  '>  niarried  Hon.  Alfred   Iverson, 

Judge  of  Supreme  Court  of  Georgia,  U.  S. 
Senator,  and  general  in  Confederate  Army. 

2.  Mary,^    born     1807;     married    Arthur     Shaaff, 

Georgetown,  D.  C. 

3.  Clara,  born  18 10;  married  Capt.  Murray  Mason, 

U.  S.  N.,  afterwards  commodore  in  Confederate 
Navy,  son  of  Gen.  John  Mason,  of  Virginia, 
whose  brother  was  U.  S.  Senator  James  M. 
Mason,  and  whose  sister  was  Mrs.  Sidney 
Smith  I>ec,|  mother  of  Gen.  Fitz-Hugh  Lee 
{nephew  of  (len.  Robert  E.  Lee,  Commander-in- 
Chief  of  the  Southern  Confederacy);  a  daughter 
of  Clara  ?\)rsyth  Mason  married  C\ipt.  S.  B. 
Davis,  C.  S.  A.,  living  in  Alexandria,  \'a. 


*"  Virginia  Hist.  Coll.";  '' Wliyte's  Hist,  of  Ga.  ";  "Van  Hoist's  Hist,  of  U.  S. "; 
"  Bench  and  Har  of  Ga.,"  Vol.  II.,  etc.  The-  family  estate  in  Georgia  was  about  50,000 
acres,  with  about  10,000  additional  in  Louisiana. 

t  A  daughter  of  Mary  (Forsyth)  .ShaatT  nianied  Richard  Tighlinau  lirice,  grandson 
of  Gen.  Tench  Tighlman,  of  Maryland. 

I"  Lee  Family  History." 


FORSYTH    DE    FROXSAC  37 

4.  Jo/ill*   born  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  181 2;  member  of 

Society  of  the  Cincinnati  (S.  C.)  ;  Adjutant  ist 
Georgia    Regiment    in    Mexican    War;    U.    S. 
Minister  to  Mexico,    1856;    Mayor  of  Mobile, 
i860;    Confederate  Commissioner   Plenipoten- 
tiary,   1861  ;    the  Chief  of   Staff  of    the  Con- 
federate Army  of  Tennessee,  1863  ;  and  author 
of  the  "  Proclamation  of  the  South  to  the  Peo- 
ple   of    Kentucky";    since    the  war   editor  of 
Mobile  Register  until  his  death    in    1878  ;    he 
married  Margaret,   daughter  of    Latham   Hull, 
of  Augusta,  Ga.,  and  had  : 
I.   Charles,   born,    Mobile,    Colonel   3d    Alabama 
Regiment,  C.  S.  A. ;  distinguished  at  battles 
of  Bull  Run,  Shiloh,  Seven  Pines,  and  about 
Petersburg ;     married     Laura,    daughter    of 
Lorenzo   M.   Sprague,  and  had  as  children  : 

1.  Charles  Sprague,  born,  Mobile,  1861. 
[Member  of  the  S.  C.  Society  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, Superintendent  Becker  Leather 
Compan)-  of  Milwaukee ;  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Rev.  C.  F.  Knight,  4th  Bishop 
of  Milwaukee,  their  children  being  Elizabeth 
Pickering,  born  1891,  and  John,  born  1892.] 

2.  Elizabeth  Hunter,  married  Irwin  M. 
Meyer,  died  1895  ;  and  3,  Margaret  Angela, 
died  1883. 

5.  ]^irginia,  married  George  Hargraves,  had  Clara 

F.  ;  married    Capt.   Chas.   Wood,   C.    S.   A.,   of 
Iv)-,  Albemarle  County,  \"a. 

6.  Anna  E.,  born  1823. 

* "  Stevens'  War  between  the  States,"  Vol.  II. ;  "  Davis's  Rise  and  Fall  of  the 
Southern  Confederacy,"  Vol.  II. ;  "  Southern  Historical  Papers ;  Correspondence  be- 
tween the  U.  S.  and  C.  S.  Governments."  John  Forsyth,  Jr.,  enjoyed  the  soubriquet 
of  '•  Prince  of  Southern  Journalists." 


38  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

7.  Rosa  M.,  born    1823  ;  married  Wm.  Aubrey,  of 

Baltimore,  afterward  of  Cartersville,  Ga.,  Com- 
missary, C.  S.  A. 

8.  Robert*  born  in  Augusta,  Ga.,    1826;    Captain 

1st  U.  S.  Voltigeurs,  Mexican  War;  Colonel 
of  Artillery,  C.  S.  A.  ;  Commandant  of  Con- 
federate Fortiiications  in  Mobile  Bay  ;  married 
Julia,  daughter  of  Latham  Hull,  of  Augusta, 
Ga.,  and  had  : 

1.  John. 

2.  Angela. 

3.  Margaret. 

*  See  "  Correspondence  between  the  U.  S.  and  C.  S.  Governments." 


INSTAURAT^R^LimAE^ 


FORSYTH    OF    ALBANY,    CONNECTICUT   AND 
NOVA   SCOTIA 


Arthur  Forsyth,  from  Scotland,  son  of  WTlliam,  of  Bar- 
muckety  (see  p.  26),  settled  first  near  Boston  in  the  first  part  of 
the  1 8th  century.  His  children  were  John  and  Timothy,  with 
perhaps  Gilbert  and  Jason,  who  went  from  Connecticut  and 
settled  in  King's  County,  Nova  Scotia,  before  1760. 

I.  John,  son  of  Arthur,  married  a  Miss  Smith,  of  Lyme, 
Conn.,  who  claimed  descent  from  the  Princess  Pocahontas. 
Issue  : 

1.  Russeli  (hereafter). 

2.  Dana. 

3.  George,  U.  P2.  Loyalist,  list  11,  District  O,  Depart- 

ment Ontario,  from  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

4.  A  daiigliter,  married  Mr.  Rathbone,  of  Albany,  the 

father  of  General  Rathbone. 
I.   Russell  (as  above),   physician  in  Albany;    married 
Sarah  Seymour,  of    the  family  of  Gov.   Horatio 
Seymour,     Issue : 


40  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

a.  Douglas. 

b.  William     Wallace,     married      Cornelia     Kane 

Strong,   niece    of    Dr.    Kane,    the    explorer, 
and     descendant     of     Governor     Winthrop. 
Issue : 
i.    Emily  Howe,   married   Herman   Bruen,  of 

New  York,  and  had   Emily   Howe  and 

Herman, 
ii    Sarah  Seymour,  married  Matthias  Ellis,  of 

South    Carver,    Mass.,  their    daughters 

Zaidee  (who  married  Thos.  T.  Gaff,  of 

Cincinnati)  and  Helena, 
iii.   Russell,  married  Helena  Annette,  daughter 

of  Benj.  Davies  K.  Craig,  of  New  York 

City,  and  had  Beatrice. 
H.  Timothy,  son  of  Arthur,  married ,  and  had: 

1.  George  (hereafter). 

2.  David. 

3.  Sanfo7'd. 

4.  Frederic. 

George    (as    above),    married    Lucy,    daughter    of    Abner 
Howe.     He  died  1821.     Issue: 

1 .  Orlando. 

2.  Amanda  M.,  born    1806;   married   Darwin   Hill,  of 

Clarkson,  N.  Y.,  and  had  : 

a.  Cornelia  Frances,   born    1832  ;  married   Thos. 

South  worth,  Holly,  N.  Y. 

b.  Helen  Louise,  born   1834  ;   married  E.   Brad- 

ford Greenleaf,  Milwaukee. 

c.  Mary    Seymour,   born    1836;    married    W.   H. 

Rogers,  Mount  Vernon,  O. 

d.  Harriet  Evelyn. 

e.  Emma  Amanda. 

3.  Russell. 

4.  Lucy,  born  1812;  married  Hon.  J.  D.  Perkins. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  41 

5.  George  Hamilton,  born    18 13;   married  Julia  Har- 

man.      He  died  1857.      Issue: 

a.  Lucy. 

b.  Amanda. 

c.  William. 

6.  Anne,  born    18 15;   married  W.   M.   Gorham,  M.D., 

Newbargh,  N.  Y. 

7.  Jane. 


Arms  of  Denys  de  la  Thibaudiere,  de  Froxsac,  de  Bonnaventure, 

DE    VlTRE,    DE    St.    SIMON,    DE    LA    RONDE 


DENSY,    SIEUR   DE   LA   THIBAUDIERE 


Jehan  Denys,  born  in  Honfleur,  France,  in  the  early  half 
of  the  15th  century,  was  one  of  the  boldest,  most  experienced 
and  renowned  of  the  navigators  of  France.  He  commanded 
an  expedition  to  the  coast  of  Brazil  in  1504.  In  Dionne's 
History  of  New  France,  he  is  described  as  the  "First  of  the 
Norman  French  to  become  acquainted  with  the  shores  of 
Newfoundland  in  an  authentic  manner."  In  1506,  he  pub- 
lished, at  Honfleur,  his  chart  of  the  eastern  coast  of  Canada, 
Cape  Breton  and  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence.  His  name  is 
inscribed  in  the  "  Registre  de  la  Charite  at  Confrerie  de  Notre 
Dame  de  Honfleur,"  an  order  founded  in  1457.  In  the  same 
register  are  the  names  of  his  son  Jehan  and  of  his  grandson 
and  great-grandson  Jehan.  'i'his  latter  married  Marguerite, 
eldest  child  of  David  de  h'orsyth,  lord  of  Dykes,  in  Scotland, 
and  Commissioner  of  Cilasgow  in  1594  and  \'icomte  de  I'^ron- 
sac  in  France.  One  of  the  sons  of  jehan  Den)s,  tlie  exi)lorer. 
was  : 

42 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  43 

Pierre  Denys,  who  became  established  in  Tours  and  was 
Intendant  of  Finance  for  Tours.  His  sons  were :  Pierre 
Denvs  de  la  Barodiere,  a  magistrate  of  Tours  and  enrolled  in 
the  nobility,  and  Mathurin   (below). 

Mathurix  Dexvs,  Sicnr  dc  la  Thibandicrc,  was  captain  in 
the  Royal  Guard  of  King  Henry  HI.  It  is  related,  that,  on 
the  7th  of  May,  1589,  the  King,  being  besieged  in  Tours  by 
the  rebels  and  leaguers  under  the  Due  de  Mayenne,  was  so 
closely  pressed  that  he  was  obliged  to  rely  for  safety  on  the  ef- 
forts of  Denys,  who  was  killed  at  his  side  by  the  thrust  of  a 
pike.  Denys  was  buried  at  Saint  Symphorien,  a  suburb  of 
Tours,  with  royal  honors.  He  married  Mile.  Aubert,  presum- 
ably of  the  family  of  Aubert,  the  explorer.      His  son  was  : 

Jacques  Dexys,  Siciir  de  la  TJiibaudiere,  who  was  an  officer 
of  distinction  in  the  army  of  King  Henry  HI,  having  suc- 
ceeded his  father  as  Captain  of  the  Royal  Guard.  He  mar- 
ried Marie,  daughter  of  Hughes  Cosnier  de  Beseau  and  sister 
of  Emelien  Cosnier,  one  of  the  "  Hundred  Gentlemen  of  the 
King."      His  sons  were  : 

I,  Nicolas;  2,  Simon,  ancestor  of  the  Denys  de  Bonnaven- 
ture  and  de  la  Ronde  families  (to  follow)  ;  3,  Jacques,  captain 
in  the  army,  afterwards  quartermaster-general  of  the  armies 
of  the  King,  killed  at  Candie,  in  the  naval  battle  of  the  Vene- 
tians ;  4,  Henri,  killed  in  Italy  in  the  regiment  of  the  Royal 
Guards. 

Nicolas  Dexys,  Vicomtc  dc  Fvonsac,  son  of  Jacques  (as 
above),  was  born  at  Tours  in  1598.  He  and  his  brother 
Simon  were  provided  for  in  the  inheritance  of  Capt.  Jehan 
Denys  and  his  wife,  Marguerite  (Forsyth)  Denys,  of  Honfleur, 
which  included  their  ancestral  claims  in  Canada,  or  New 
France,  into  which  country  these  two  brothers  went  (see  de 
Fronsac  succession,  p.  65).  He  married  Marguerite  de  la 
Faye.      His  children  were  : 

I.  Richard,  for  whose  family,  see  de  P"ronsac  succes- 
sion,   p.    68.     His    daughter    Anne    de    Fronsac 


44  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

married  Jean  Mercian,  non-commissioned  officer  in 
Quebec  Garrison  in  1 709,  whose  children  were  : 
a.  Agathe,  born  171 2;  b.  Jean  B.,  who  married 
and  had  an  only  child  also  named  Jean  B.  Mercan, 
born  1749,  married,  at  Repentigny,  1768,  Marie, 
daughter  of  J.  B.  Baudoin,  and  had  an  only  child, 
Marie  Joseph,  who  married  1792,  at  Repentigny, 
Augustin  Duval  (descendant  of  Francois  Duval, 
Seigneur  Duponthant,  in  Brittany,  who  canie  to 
Quebec  before  1657  and  whose  wife  was  Marie 
Giguelle  of  Ponsol,  Brittany).  His  children  were  : 
I,  Augustin  Duval,  born  1792,  and  2,  Marie 
Angelique  Duval,  born  1795. 
II.  Marguerite,  married,  at  Honfleur  in  France,  her 
cousin,  James  Forsaith  of  Failzerton,  a  captain 
under  the  King  of  France. 


DENYS,   SEIGNEUR   DE   BONNAVENTURE 

Simon  Denys,  Seigneur  de  la  Triuite,  brother  of  Nicolas, 
Vicomte  de  Fronsac,  was  born  at  Tours  in  1599.  He  came 
to  Canada  as  Captain  in  the  Regiment  Carignan-Salieres, 
where  he  was  distinguished  in  the  Indian  Wars.  He  was 
made  Receiver  General  for  the  Company  of  New  France  at 
Quebec.  He  married,  ist,  Jeanne  Dubreuil,  daughter  of  the 
Procureur  du  Roi  du  Breuil  of  Tours;  2(1,  r'rancoise  du  Tar- 
tre.      His  children  were  : 

I.      Pierre,  born,  l^'rance,  1630,  Sie/z/t/c/a  /\(>U(/e,undcv 

which  head  sec. 
II.      Charles,  born,  France,   1638,  Sieiir  de   ]'itri\  untlcr 
which  head  see. 
HI.      Fran(^-oise,    born    1644,    married    Michel     LeNeuf, 
Seio/ienr  du  Herissou. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  45 

IV.      Catherine,  born  1646. 
V.      Paul,  born    1649,  Sicitr  dc  St.  Simoti,  under  which 

head  see. 
VI.      Marguerite,  born  163  i,  married  Michael  Cresse. 
VII.      Barbe,    born     1652,    married     Antoine     Pecody-de 

Centrecoeur. 
VIII.     Simon  Pierre,  born  1654. 
IX.      Marie,  born  1656. 
X.      Claude,  born  1657.      Deacon. 
XI.      Gabrielle,  born  1658. 

XII.      Charlotte,    born    1663;     married     Pierre     Dupas ; 
secondly,  Pierre  Boucher. 

XIII.  Jacques,  born  1664. 

XIV.  Marie  PVangoise,  born  1666;  married  John  Outlan  ; 

secondly,  Noel  Chartrain. 
XV.  Jean  Baptiste,  born  1669. 
Pierre  Dexvs,  Sicur  dc  la  Ronde,  eldest  son.  [His  spon- 
sors were  Sieur  du  Breuil  and  Nicole  du  Ruisseau,  wife  of 
Hurban  Chomalus,  Procureur  du  Roi  de  la  Prevote  de  Tours] 
as  above.  He  was  grand  master  of  forests  and  waters  of 
New  France;  married  1655,  at  Quebec,  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Jacques  Le  Neuf,  Sieur  de  La  Poterie,  member  of  the 
Superior  Council,  by  wife  Margaret  Le  Gardeur.  He  was 
brother  of  Matheu-Michel  Le  Neuf,  Sieur  de  Herisson,  Lieut.- 
Gen.  for  the  king.      Pierre  died  1708.      Children: 

I.  Marguerite  Renee,  born.  Three  Rivers,  1656;  mar- 
ried 1672,  Thomas  de  La  Nouguere ;  sec- 
ondly, Jacques  Alex  de  Fleury,  died  1722. 
II.  yacques,  born  1657. 
III.  Simon  Pierre,  born  1659,  Seig-neiii-  de  Bojuiaven- 
ture ;  Chevalier  and  King's  Lieutenant  in 
Acadia  in  1689;  captain  of  frigate,  Royal 
French  Navy,  1691  ;  announced  relief  at 
Quebec,  captured  several  English  prizes,  even 
at  the  gates  of    Boston,  and  took  them  into 


46  FORSYTH    DE    FROXSAC 

Port  Royal.  He  failed  to  capture  Pemkrut, 
but  his  arrival  and  conqviests  on  the  coast  of 
Acadia  in  1695  *  raised  the  spirits  of  the  pro- 
vincials. He  defeated  the  Boston  man-of-war 
"  Sorlings  "  off  St.  John.  In  1707  he  was 
one  of  the  most  energetic  naval  commanders 
against  the  PInglish.  He  married  Genevieve, 
daughter  of  Louis  Couillard,  Sieur  de  I'Es- 
pinay ;  secondly,  Jeanne  Janiere,  of  Hom- 
bourg.      Children : 

a.  Charles,  born  i6(S7,  died  1688. 

b.  Claude,  Scig?ic!ir  dc  Bonnavcnturc,  Chevalier  of 

the  Royal  and  Military  Order  of  St.  Louis, 
Admiral  of  P'rance ;  married,  1748,  Louise, 
daughter  of  Louis  Denys,  Sicur  de  la  Rondc, 
by  wife  Louise,  daughter  of  Rene  Louis  Char- 
tier  de  Lotbiniere,  Councillor  for  the  King, 
Lieut.-Gen.  Civil  and  Criminal.  Claude  was 
also  Major  of  the  Battalion  of  Isle  Royal.  He 
returned  to  P'rance  with  the  P'rench  Naval  and 
Military  forces  in  1760  and  died  from  wounds 
received  at  Louisbourg.  He  had  a  son,  Claude 
Charles  (see  p  50),  and  daughter,  Marie 
Louise,  born,  Louisbourg,  1758. 
IV.     Marie  Angcliqiic,    born    1661  ;     married    Charles 

Aubert. 
V.      Claude,  born   1663. 
VI.      Fraiicoise   yeaiine,  born    1664;   married  Guillaume 
Bonthier ;     secondly,     Nicolas      D'Aillcboust. 
Seigneur  de  Menteth. 
VH.      Catherine,  born   1666. 

VIII.  Marie  Charlotte,  born  1668;  married  Claude  (V^ 
Ramezay,  Governor  of  Montreal,  who  built 
the  Chateau  de  Ramezay  there,  1705. 


*  Charlevoix,  "  Hist.de  Nouvelle  France." 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 


47 


IX.      Joscpli,  Priest-Recollect. 
X.      Xicolas,  born  1669. 
XI.      Pierre,  born  167  I. 
XII.      Marie  Louise,  horn  \6y\;  married   Pierre   D'Aille- 
boust,  Seio:neur  d'Aro-enteuil. 


CHATEAU    DE    KAMEZAV 


XIII.  Louis,  born    1675;    Sieur  de   la  Ronde ;    married 

Louise  Chartier  de   Lotbiniere  (as  below). 

XIV.  Aiuie     Ursnle,    born     1677  ;     married     Fran^oise 

Aubert. 
Louis  Denys  de  la  Ronde,  son  as  above,  of  Pierre,  a 
captain  of  a  detachment  of  Marines.  First  Captain  Comman- 
dant of  troops  sent  by  the  King  to  Acadia.  Chevalier  of  the 
Order  of  St.  Louis,  etc.,  married  Louise,  daughter  of  Rene 
Louis  Chartier  Lotbiniere.  Lieut. -Gen.,  etc.,  and  son  of  Louis 


48  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Therandre  Chartier  de  Lotbiniere,  Lieut  .-Gen.  of  the  Prevote 
of  Quebec.  He  drove  the  English  from  Acadia.  Royal 
Envoy  sent  to  New  England,  171 1,  by  the  Governor,  Count 
de  Costabelle.  Most  likely  he  is  the  Sieur  de  La  Ronde 
mentioned  by  Garneau  as  introducing  the  manufacture  of  salt 
into  Canada.      Three  of  his  children  were  : 

L  Francis  Paul  Deny s,hoxVi.  1722;  Sicnr  dc  la  Thibcan- 
dicrc,  officer ;  married  Marguerite,  daughter  of 
Alex.  Celles-Duclos,  son  of  Gabriel,  Sieur  du 
Sailly,  Civil  and  Criminal  Judge  at  Montreal  in 
1652.      Children  : 

a.   Louis,    born ;   b.   Paul,    Royalist,    killed    in 

War  1777;  c.   Marie  A.,  born  at  Detroit,  1757; 
d.  Elizabeth,  born  1 760. 
II.      Pierre  Denjs,   born,    Quebec,    November    11,    1726, 
Seigneur  de  la  Ronde,  etc.  (see  page  51). 
III.      Philippe  Denys,  Sieur  de  la  Ronde  ;  captain  of  a  de- 
tachment  of    marines;    married,    Quebec,    1753, 
Louise    Marguerite,   daughter    of    Jean    Baptiste 
Gaillard,  son  of  Guillaume,  Seigneur  de  ITsle  et 
Comte    de   St.    Laurent,    Royal    Councillor,   etc. 
Children  : 

a.  Philippe  Ambroise,  born  1753. 

b.  Roch,  born  and  died  1755. 


DENYS   DE    VITRE 

Charles  Dknvs,  Sieur  de  /  7//-^  and  Sieur  de  la  I'rinite, 
second  son  of  Simon,  Sieur  de  la  Trinite,  councillor  for  the 
king;  married,  1668,  Quebec,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Charles 
de  Lostelnau,  of  St.  Nicolas  dcs  Champs,  Paris,  tlied  1703. 
Children  : 

I.      Catherine  Philippe,  born  1672. 
II.     Marie  Gabrielle,  married,  1687,  Pierre  Descayrac. 


ELIZABETH    AND    JEAN    DE    BONNAVENTURE 

(See  p.  51) 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  49 

III.  CJiarlcs,  Sicur  de  litre,  councillor  of  the  king; 
married,  at  Lorette,  1700,  Charlotte,  daughter  of 
Jean  Chretien.     Children  : 

a.  Charles  Amboise,  born,  Quebec,  1700  ;  died  1701. 

b.  Charles  Paul,  born  1702;  died  1703. 


DENYS   DE   ST.   SIMON 

Paul  Denys,  third  son  of  Simon  Denys,  Siair  dc  la 
Triniti\  was  Sieur  de  St.  Simon.  He  was  grand  provost  of 
the  "  Marechaussee "  ;  married,  Quebec,  1678,  Marie  Made- 
leine, daughter  of  Jean  Dupeyras,  Sicur  dc  Santcrrc;  secondly, 
Marie  Theresa,  daughter  of  Ignace  Duchesnay,  Sicitr  dc  Beau- 
port.     He  died  1737.     Children: 

L      Catherine,  born    1679  ;    married   Dominique   Berge- 
ron ;   2d,  Guillaume  Gaillard. 
n.      Louis  Madeleine,  born  168 1. 
HT     Marie  Angelique,  born  1684. 
IV.      Marie  Antoinette,  born  1686. 

V.  Charles  Paul,  born  1688;  Seigneur  de  St.  Simon; 
royal  councillor  and  provost  of  the  Marechaussee  ; 
died  1748;  married  Marie  Joseph,  daughter  of 
Louis  Prat,  captain  of  the  Port  of  Quebec. 
Children  : 

a.  Marie  Louise,  born  17 14;  died  17 17. 

b.  Marie  Angelique,  born  17 16. 
e.  Jean  Paul,  born  17 17. 

d.  Matheu  Paul,  born  171 8. 

e.  Louise  Frangoise,  born  1722. 
/.  Marie  Madeleine,  born  1724. 

g.  Marie  Jacquette,  born  and  died  1729. 
h.   Anne  Charlotte,  born,  Charlesbourg,  1730. 
/.   Paul  Charles,  born  1733. 

J.  Antoine  Charles,  born   1734;   died  at  Leszanne, 
Hayti,  1785. 


50  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

k.   Catherine  Angelique,  born  1736. 

/.   Louis  Achille,  born  1738. 

;//.   Hugues  Mathurin,  born  and  died  1739. 

;/.  Guillaume  Mathurin,  born  and  died  1741. 
VI.  Elizabeth,  born  1690;  married  Mathurin  Collet. 
VII.  GuiUaunic  EnianncI  Theodore,  born  1693  ;  Sieur 
de  ]ltre ;  married  Marie  Joseph,  daughter  of 
Raymond  Blaise  Des  Bergeres,  captain  of 
Marines  and  major-commandant  at  Three  Ri\^ers. 
Children  : 

a.  Theodore  Mathieu,  born    1724;  captain  French 

Royal  Navy,  made  prisoner  by  the  English, 
1759,  afterwards  entered  the  British  Navy  as 
captain  ;  died,  England. 

b.  Marie  Noelle,  born  1725. 

c.  Pierre  Marie,  born  1727  ;  died  1730. 
VIII.     Alexandre,  born  1696  ;  priest. 

IX.     Marie  Anne,  born  1698  ;  married  Michel  Berthier. 
X.    Jean,  born  1702. 
XI.      Charhdte  Fran(^oise,  born,  Charlesbourg,  1704. 

Claude  Charles  Denys  (see  p.  46),  Sieiir  de  la  Ronde 
de  Bonnaventiire ;  born  October  19,  1749,  captain  in  Royal 
French  navy,  chev'alier  of  the  Order  of  St.  Louis,  Elector  of 
the  nobility  of  Aunis  (France)  in  1787.  He  was  a  royalist  who 
died  in  emigration  in  1801.  He  had  married  in  1790  Jeanne 
Pelagic  de  Butler,  one  of  the  family  of  the  Irisli  Dukes  of 
Ormonde  in  P' ranee.  His  children  were  : 
I.      Ainedie  Denys  (see  below). 

II.     AdolpJie  Denys  de  Bonnaventiire,   born    1799,   d.  s.  p. 
1871. 

Amedie  Denys  de  Bonnaventure,  born  1796  ;  died  1890. 
Officer  and  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor,  under  Napoleon, 
and  Knight  of  the  Order  of  King  Charles  HI  of  Spain.  He 
married  Mile.  Laurisseau  and  had  : 


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I.     Charles  (see  below). 
II.     AcJiille  Denys  de  Boiuiavciititre,  born  1832,  married, 
1857,  Emelie  de  Montlaur  de  Bonnecarere  and  had, 
I,  Olum ;   2,  Marie   Louise;   3,  Charles,   born    i860, 
married  M.   de  Chauvigny  and  had,  a,  Henry,  born 
1893;  b,  Guy,  born  1897;  c,  Pierre,  born  1898. 
III.     Eugenie  de  Bonnaventnre,  born  1834,  married  M.  de 
Chievres   and    had,    a,   Zenobie    de    Chievres,   born 
1859;  married,  1886,  the  Comte  de  Nucheze. 
Chakles     Denvs     de     Boxxaventure    (as    above),    born 
1830;   died   187 1  :    paymaster   of   marines    at    La    Rochelle ; 
married    Clemence    de  \'illedon  de  Courson   and   had    Louis 
(as  below). 

Louis  Uexys  de  Boxxavexture,  born    i860,  councillor 
in   France  of  the  Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada  (1902-3),  re- 
siding at  Aytre,  Charente  Inferieure  ;  married  1886,  Marthe 
de  la  Rochelrochard  and  has : 
I.      Elizabeth,  born  1887. 
II.     Jean,  born  1889. 


DENYS   DE   LA    RONDE 

Pierre  Dexvs  de  la  Roxde  (see  p.  48),  born,  Quebec, 
November  11,  1726.  He  died  May  7,  1772.  His  sponsors 
were  the  Marquis  de  Vaudreuil  and  Ursule  Aubert.  He  was 
Major  in  the  Marines  sent  into  Louisiana,  and  also  Chevalier 
of  the  Order  of  St.  Louis.  His  magnificent  estate  was  situ- 
ated at  Algiers,  near  New  Orleans.  He  married,  1757, 
Madeleine,  widow  of  Louis  Xavier  Chalmet  de  Lino,  lieuten- 
ant in  the  Marines.  She  was  daughter  of  Ignace  F.  de 
Broutin,  captain  and  engineer,  and  commandant  of  the  Nat- 
chez Port,  by  wife,  Madeleine  Lemaire.  He  was  relative  of 
the  Marquis  de  Vaudreuil,  last  French  governor  of  Canada. 
His  children  : 

I.     Louise,   born    1758,   at    New   Orleans,   married   Col. 
Don  Andre  Almonaster-Y-Roxas  (son  of    Don  Miguel  Jose 


52  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Almonaster  by  his  wife,  Donna  Maria  Juanna  de  Estrada- Y- 
Roxas,  both  of  noble  birth  and  nativ^es  of  Mayrena,  Anda- 
lusia, Spain).  He  was  Knight  of  the  Royal  Order  of  King 
Carlos  III,  colonel,  king's  lieutenant-governor  and  president 
of  the  Council  of  Louisiana  for  King  Charles  III.  Don 
Almonaster  is  buried  in  front  of  the  altar  of  St.  Francis  of 
Assissis,  beneath  a  marble  slab  on  which  is  engraved  his 
name  and  arms,  his  royal  honors,  and  the  enumeration  of  his 
deeds  —  he  having  founded  the  cathedral  of  St.  Louis,  the 
palace  of  justice,  the  presbytery,  several  schools  for  children 
and  a  hospital  for  lepers.  By  this  marriage  there  was  one 
daughter : 

Michela  Leonarda,  born  1795  ;  married  Joseph  C. 
Delfau  de  Pontalba,  lieutenant  in  the  French 
Marine  Corps,  commandant  of  the  Cotes  des  Alle- 
mands  on  the  Mississippi,  son  and  heir  of  Xavier 
Delfau,  Baron  de  Pontalba,  officer  in  the  army  of 
King"  Charles  III,  of  Spain. 
II.  Marie  Therese,  born  1759,  married  Don  Juan  Pieto, 
New  Orleans. 

III.     Pierre  (below). 

Pierre  Dexvs  de  la  Roxde  (as  above),  born.  New 
Orleans,  1762;  lieutenant  in  Royal  Regiment  of  Louisiana; 
civil  and  military  governor  of  St.  Barnard  Parish  ;  president 
of  the  Royal  Council  (1798-1803);  Colonel  of  the  Royal 
Regiment  of  Louisiana  up  to  the  cession  to  the  United 
States,  1803  ;  General,  commanding  the  Louisiana  troops 
at  the  Battle  of  New  Orleans  (18 14),  and  chief  military 
adviser  of  General  Jackson,  by  the  adoption  of  whose 
plan  the  defence  of  New  Orleans  was  made  successful. 
He  was  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  Louisiana 
in  18  I  2.  He  married  luilalie,  daughter  of  Louis  Alexander 
Gerbois,  officer  in  tlie  l-'rcnch  arm\-,  and  left  : 

I.     Eii/alie,  born,  New  Orleans,  1788;  married  Gabriel 
Evcrillc  Villere,  Colonel  of  the  3d  Regiment  of  Louisiana  at 


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siege  of  New  Orleans  in  1814,  and  son  of  Maj.-Gen.  Jacques 
P.  Villere,  second  governor  of  Louisiana. 

II.     ElizabetJi    Celeste,    born    1792;    married    Maunsel 
White,  colonel  in  the  Mexican  War  of  1846,  and  State  senator. 

III.  Heloise,  born  1792. 

IV.  Manette,  born  1799,  married  Gen.  Casimir  Lacoste. 
V.     Pepite,  born  1799. 

VI.  Adelaide  Adtle,  born  1803  ;  married  the  Hon. 
Joseph  Adolph  Ducros,  senator  in  1877,  son  of  Rodolphe  Jo- 
seph Ducros,  a  military  officer  under  King  Charles  III,  by 
wife,  Marie  Lucie  de  Reggio. 

VII.     Felicite    Felicicie,  born    1805  ;    married    Pierre    F. 
Jorda,  son  of  Don  Jayne  Y.  F.  Jorda  and  Helene  de  Reggio. 

VIII.  Einilie,  born  1807;  married  Pierre  Hoa,  son  of 
Don  Manual  Hoa. 

Arms  of  all  these  branches  of  the  family  of  Denys  are  : 
gules,  a  grape,  argent,  over  all  a  count's  crown ;  the  shield 
supported  by  2  stags. 

The  lordships  and  seigneuries  of  the  families  of  Forsyth 
and  Denys  in  Canada  were  as  follows  : 

Denys,  Lordship  of  Isle  St.  Jean  (Prince  Edwards  Island),  1,450,440  acres. 

Denys,  Lordship  of  Cape  Breton,  2,119,600  acres. 

Denys,  Seigneurie  of  Fronsac  (in  New  Brunswick),  1,390,600  acres. 

Denys,  Seigneurie  of  Bonnaventure  (in  Quebec),  2,106,000  acres. 

Forsyth,  Seigneurie  of  Langon  (near  St.  Hyacinthe,  P.  Q.),  6,000  acres. 

Forsyth,  Seigneurie  of  Anticosti,  1,774,000  acres. 

Total,  8,846,640  acres 


THE   INDIVIDUAL 

BY   F.   G.   F.   DE   FRONSAC 

The  race  owes  everything-  to  the  Individual.  In  viewing 
the  Past,  the  race  is  proud  of  the  Individual.  The  present 
greatest  achievement  of  the  race  is  the  production  of  the  In- 
dividual ;  the  future  glory  of  the  race  is  in  the  possibility  of 
the  Individual.  Yet,  frequently  and  always  disastrously,  the 
race  and  the  Individual  are  beheld  in  conflict.  The  Past, 
Present  and  Future  are  ready  to  fall  into  the  crucible  of 
Chaos,  to  be  dissolved  from  their  harmonious  union,  the 
memory  of  the  first  from  the  reality  of  the  second,  from  the 
ambition  of  the  third,  to  lie  in  unconscious  and  perishing  frag- 
ments, unless  drawn  together  again  by  a  new  combination. 
And  it  is  submission  to  the  Individual  that  reunites  the  race, 
as  it  is  war  against  the  Individual  that  causes  the  race  to  be 
dissevered.  Herein  is  the  law  of  human  progression  and 
retrogression  as  derived  from  the  multitudinous  histories  of 
the  human  race.  However  the  abstract  testimonials  of  histo- 
rians may  disagree,  the  concrete  testimonials  of  their  subject 
matter,  divested  from  the  commenting  prejudice  of  the  writers, 
bear  witness  to  the  invariability  of  this  law. 

The  building  up  of  civilization  is  ever  under  the  rulership 
of  the  Individual.  This  rulership  is  called  monarchy  and  is 
the  government  of  the  first  great  man  who  dominates  the 
savage  tribe  of  jarring  mediocres  who  are  disputing  continu- 
ally over  the  affairs  of  ordinary  living.  He  leads  them  by  the 
might  of  his  genius  along  the  path,  which  alone,  his  far-reach- 
ing vision  sees,  to  the  affairs  of  extraordinary  living.  These 
affairs  are  developed  in  his  potent  intelligence.  He  becomes 
the  god,  the  creator  of  the  race,  the  head,  the  lightning  en- 
deavor that  flashes  for  a  while,  and  causes  a  momentary  light 

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56  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

to  send  a  blessing  over  the  darkness  of  the  age.  Then,  when 
he  departs,  he,  the  Individual,  from  the  confines  of  terrestrial 
activity,  he  leaves  the  ideal  of  himself  as  that  by  which  human 
progress  and  order  are  to  be  maintained.  By  the  divine 
power  of  genius,  coming  to  the  dictatorship  of  affairs,  he  be- 
queathes his  dictatorial  authority  in  a  definite  manner.  It 
goes  as  a  legacy,  so  that  it  shall  fall  to  the  Individual  the  best 
born  and  not  to  the  first  discordant  self,  the  meanest  Barab- 
bas,  half-man  of  the  crowd.  What  though  the  Individual  who 
inherits  the  power  of  Monarchy  be  not  a  genius,  yet  he  repre- 
sents the  type  of  that  government  which  genius  has  bestowed 
as  the  most  natural  and  orderly  for  human  progress  and  hap- 
piness. 

The  Monarchy,  the  government  of  the  Individual,  is  the 
only  form  of  rulership  wherein  man  prospers  in  his  greatness. 
Then  the  pride,  the  product  and  the  hope  of  the  race,  are  in 
security.  But  so  soon  as  the  race  is  dissevered  —  breaking 
from  this,  through  a  passing  madness,  like  a  rabid  dog  with 
an  hundred  heads,  whose  brain  has  been  turned  by  meaning- 
less words  and  whose  acts  are  already  savored  by  the  corrup- 
tion of  a  dissolute  society,  or  by  some  other  ways  —  then 
begins  the  abolition  of  the  Individual.  Every  great  man  is  a 
Monarch  in  embryo,  whom  the  race  hastens  to  destroy,  or 
repulses  to  the  pace  of  mediocres,  in  order  that  the  embryo 
shall  not  develop  and  the  crown  of  human  dignity  be  not 
manifest  on  his  brow. 

The  same  servile  bigotry  and  the  desire  for  the  drunken- 
ness of  license  and  disorder  animated  the  crowd  when  tiic)- 
demanded  their  Barabbas  in  their  war  against  the  Individual- 
Christ. 

It  is  the  difference  of  the  Indivickial  from  the  race  thai 
causes  the  race  to  be  hostile  to  his  endeavor  and  to  desire  to 
destroy  his  Individuality.  Yet  it  is  the  Individual  alone,  who 
possesses  the  idea  and  knowledge  of  power  and  the  ability  of 
leadership.     It  is  the  government  of  the  Monarch  alone,  that 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  57 

calls  the  great  men  of  the  state  to  surround  the  Throne  by 
their  glory,  and  gives  to  each  a  place  for  his  peculiar  genius. 
It  is  the  government  of  the  democracy — or  that  of  the  race 
against  the  Individual  —  that  crushes  individual  honor  and 
distinction,  discourages  glory  before  the  rotting  charms  of 
avarice  and  tramples  the  ambition  of  noble  and  high-minded 
men  beneath  the  feet  of  servile  and  contending  factions. 

It  has  been  said,  and  truly,  that  the  democracy  is  the  gov- 
ernment of  races  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  however  it  may  be 
brought  about,  or  what  might  have  been  the  excuse  which 
led  to  its  introduction,  the  fact  remains,  that  the  flood-tides 
of  evil  passion  in  the  majority,  by  drowning  each  opposing 
individuality,  leaves  the  most  abasing  model  of  nonentity  as 
the  fashion  of  mankind.  With  the  government  of  such  in 
lead,  the  final  disaster  of  the  state  approaches  with  a  good 
invitation. 


THE  DE   FRONSAC   SUCCESSION 
COUNTS,    MARQUISES   AND   DUCS   DE   FRONSAC 

The  Castle  ForsatJi  dc  Fronsac,  which  gave  a  name  to  the 
family,  continued  in  the  possession  of  the  male  line  down  to 
the  fourteenth  century,  when  it  was  demolished  in  war,  and 
rebuilt.  In  1344,  at  the  time  of  which  Froissart  writes,  it 
had  passed  into  the  female  line,  the  Cadet  male  line  having 
emigrated  to  Scotland,  but  of  this  later.  (For  Cadet  line  see 
p.  5.)  The  castle  was  destroyed  and  rebuilt,  but  this  time 
as  Chateau  Fronsac.  Several  heirs  and  rivals  for  its  posses- 
sion, representing  as  many  different  families,  all  descended 
from  daughters  of  Forsath  de  Fronsac,  carried  on  party  feuds. 
One  of  these  occupied  it  against  the  wishes  of  the  king,  who 
was  the  arbitrator  of  their  dispute.  He  defied  the  king's 
general,  the  Count  Dunois,  in  1442,  to  turn  him  out,  beating- 
back  three  desperate  assaults  of  the  king's  army  with  great 
slaughter  before  the  castle  was  taken. 

Odet  d'Aydie,  belonging  to  the  prince!)'  house  of  Foi.x, 
then  was  recognized  (1472)  by  the  king  as  Mcouitc  de  Fronsac. 
He  was  already    llconitc  dc  Laittirc.      At  his  death: 

The  Seigneur  de  Gie,  Marshal  of  the  Army  (1491),  was 
the  next  Vicomte  de  T^ronsac.  He  was  succeeded  by  liis 
cousin  : 

Jacques  d'Albket,  of  the  princely  family  of  Navarre.  lb; 
was  also  Marechal  de  St.  Andre.  The  king,  Henr\-  II. 
erected  the  title  into  Count  dc  /•'ronsirc  in  1551.      I  lis  relative  : 

Antoine   de   Lustkac;   was   made  Mai'i/nis  dc  I'lvnsac  \w 

1555.      The  family  of   Lustrac  was  ancient  and  noble  in    Peri- 

gord.      They  were   Barons  de   Lias,   and   Seigneurs  of  Cana- 

bazes,  Cazarac,  La  Maritinie  and  Losse.      Bernaixl  de  Lustrac 

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FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  59 

was  Bishop  of  Rieux  and  President  of  the  Estates  of  Langue- 
docque  in  1483.  Jean  de  Lustrac  married  in  15  19  Antonia 
Delhic  and  was  grandsire  of  the  above  Marquis  de  Fronsac. 

Previous  to  this,  the  family  of  Cainnoiit,  whose  descendant 
was  the  Due  de  la  Force,  and  a  marshal  of  France,  were 
claiming  the  title  of  Comte  de  Fronsac.  Through  various 
alliances  the  title  passed  next  to  a  distant  member  of  the 
Ro}-al  Family  of  France  in  the  person  of : 

Francois  u'Orleans-Loxgueville,  Covitc  dc  St.  Pol, 
whose  relative,  Henry  the  Great,  King  of  France,  raised  it  to  a 
duchy  in  1608.      He  died  without  issue  in  163  i. 

Arms  of  Lustrac  : — Quarterly  ist  and  4th,  gules  three  bars 
argent ;  2d  and  3d  azure,  a  lion  rampant  or,  crowned  of  the 
same  and  armed  and  membered  gules. 

The  family  of  Richelieu  succeeded  to  the  title  and  their 
arms  are:  —  Quarterly  ist  and  4th,  or,  three  boars'  heads 
sable  for  Vignerot ;  2d  and  3d,  argent,  three  cheveronells 
gules  for  Duplessis  de  Richelieu. 

Arm  AND  Jeax  Duplessis,  Due  de  Richelieu,  Prime  Min- 
ister of  France  and  Cardinal,  succeeded  to  the  title  of  de 
Fronsac  in  1634.  He  was  the  son  of  Frangois  Duplessis, 
Seigneur  de  Richelieu,  and  of  Susanne  de  la  Porte,  born  at 
Paris,  September  5,  1585,  and  was  descended  from  the  Seign- 
eurs Du  Plessis  of  Poitou,  tracing  to  Lord  William  Du  Plessis 
of  1 20 1.  He  had  two  sisters,  who  married,  the  first,  Rene  de 
Vignerot,  Lord  of  Pont-Couiiay,  the  second.  Urban  de  Maille, 
Marquis  de  Breze,  Admiral  and  Marshal  of  France.  Armand 
de  Richelieu  was  intended  for  the  military  profession,  but  he 
was  persuaded  to  renounce  it  and  become  Bishop  of  Lugon  in 
1607.  In  the  assembly  of  the  States  General  of  16 14  he  was 
Deputy  for  the  Clergy  of  Poitou.  He  became  next,  confessor 
of  the  Queen  Dowager,  and  in  16 16  he  became  Secretary  of 
State  for  War  and  Foreign  Affairs.  He  was  made  Cardinal 
in  1622,  and  he  was  named  a  member  of  the  King's  Council 
in  1624  which  he  dominated  from  the  time  he  entered  it  until 


6o  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

his  death  eighteen  years  after,  as  absohite  master  of  the  des- 
tinies of  France.  That  country  he  raised  from  tlie  third 
power  of  Europe  to  the  first  place.  He  could  say,  as  he  is 
made  to  say  in  Bulwer's  Richelieu  : 

"  I  found  France  rent  with  heracies  and  bristling 
With  rebelHon  ...   I  have  recreated  France  and 
From  the  ashes  of  the  decrepit,  feudal  carcass,  civilization 
Soars  on  luminous  wings  to  Jove  ..." 

He  was  a  great  general  as  his  campaigns  before  LaRochelle 
and  in  Italy  testify,  and  although  he  was  a  Cardinal  of  the 
Church  of  Rome,  he  was  so  liberal  to  the  Protestants  and 
"heretics"  that  his  enemies  called  him  "Pontiff  of  the  Cal- 
vinists,"  and  "Cardinal  of  atheists."  His  maxim  was  that  if 
a  man  is  a  good  citizen  and  performs  his  civil  duties  that  is  all 
that  can  be  required  of  him.  He  appointed  the  Prince  de 
Rohan,  a  Protestant,  to  be  general  of  the  armies  of  P" ranee, 
and  he  sent  troops  and  money  to  aid  Gustavus  Adolphus,  King 
of  Sweden  and  chief  of  the  Protestants,  in  his  fight  against 
Catholic  Austria  because  the  political  interest  of  France  re- 
quired the  humiliation  of  Spain  and  Austria,  then  her  most 
powerful  enemies.  No  minister  of  France  has  left  so  great  a 
name  as  Richelieu,  and  when  he  died,  December  4,  1 642,  he 
bequeathed  the  powers  of  monarchy  consolidated  for  the  ad- 
ministration of  King  Louis  XIV,  one  of  the  glories  of  whose 
reign  in  literature  and  art  may  be  traced  to  Richelieu's  creation 
of  the  French  Academy  —  that  protector  of  French  genius. 

Rene  de  Vignekot,  Dug  de  Richelieu,  Dl'g  de 
F"konsac,  etc.,  succeeded  the  Cardinal,  being  adopted  as  his 
heir  and  successor,  he  having  married  Richelieu's  elder  sister. 
But  as  they  had  no  cliildren  the  title  j^assed,  at  his  death,  to 
the  family  of  : 

Louis  de  Bourbon,  Prince  de  Conde,  who  had  married,  in 
1641,  Claire  Clemence  de  Maille-Breze,  niece  of  the  Cardinal 
Minister,  the  Due  de  Richelieu  and  de  h'ronsac.      The   I'rince 


RICHELIEU    AND    FATHER    JOSEPH. 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  6l 

of  Conde,  surnamed  the  Great,  was  born  in  1621.  He  was 
General-in-Chief  of  the  armies  of  France.  His  campaigns  are 
among  the  most  glorious  in  the  annals  of  Europe.  He  con- 
quered Germany,  Spain  and  Austria.  Wherever  he  went  he 
bore  the  standard  of  victory.  He  was  also  the  patron  of 
Corneille  and  Racine.  The  history  of  his  life  would  make 
volumes,  and  of  his  race,  a  library.  His  grandfather  was  the 
Prince  de  Conde,  the  Huguenot,  and  cousin  of  King  Henry  IV". 
He  died  December  11,  1689. 

Armand  Jean  de  Vignerot-Duplessis,  Due  de  Riche- 
lieu, Due  DE  Fronsac,  General  of  the  Galleys  of  France, 
succeeded  the  Prince  and  Princess  de  Conde  in  the  titles  of 
Richelieu  and  P'ronsac,  being  nephew  of  the  Princess  de 
Conde,  Duchess  de  P'ronsac,  and  her  heir.  He  married  Anne 
Marguerite  d'Acigne.     His  eldest  son  was  : 

Louis  P^rancois-Armand  de  Vignerot-Duplessis,  Due 
de  Richelieu,  Due  de  F'ronsac  and  Marshal  of  P^rance.  He 
was  baptized  as  the  Due  de  Fronsac  in  1699,  being  held  in 
the  arms  of  the  King  and  Duchess  of  Burgundy.  He 
entered  the  army  as  a  musketeer  and  served  so  well  at  the 
Battle  of  Denain,  that  he  was  named  aide-de-camp  to  Marshal 
V^illars.  In  Dumas'  novels  the  story  of  Richelieu's  implica- 
tion in  the  conspiracy  of  Cellamare  has  the  romantic  flavor 
of  trying  to  release  P" ranee  from  the  odious  ministry  of  that 
Dubois,  who  had  come  into  power  with  the  regency  which 
succeeded  the  death  of  King  Louis  XIV, — and  Dubois  has 
been  well-painted  by  Dumas,  especially  in  his  book,  "La  Fille 
(in  Regiment!'  On  account  of  the  elegance  of  Richelieu's  mind 
and  talent  his  admirers  had  him  elected  to  the  P'rench  Acad- 
emy. In  1720  he  was  received  in  Parliament  as  a  peer  of 
P" ranee.  After  the  death  of  Dubois,  he  was  relieved  from  the 
jealousy  of  that  minister.  He  was  named  in  1727  ambassa- 
dor to  Vienna.  His  success  as  a  diplomat  in  defeating  the 
designs  of  Spain  at  the  Austrian  court  established  his  reputa- 
tion for  wisdom  and   tact.      In  the  wars  of   Germany  which 


62  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

succeeded  he  passed  rapidly  to  promotions  by  his  distinguished 
bravery  and  military  talents,  being  brigadier  in  1733  and 
Manxhal  dc  Cavip  in  1738.  He  raised,  armed  and  equipped, 
at  his  own  expense  for  the  king,  a  regiment  of  dragoons  called 
Scptimcnic,  of  which  his  son,  the  young  Due  de  Fronsac, 
then  (1744)  but  nine  years  of  age,  was  named  colonel  by  the 
king,  while  the  father  was  made  lieutenant-general.  But  his 
greatest  success  was  the  victory  of  Fontenoy,  which  his  tact 
and  skill  won  from  the  English,  after  Marshal  de  Saxe  and 
King  Louis  XV  had  abandoned  all  hope  of  the  day,  and  the 
English  were  advancing  to  drive  the  French  into  the  river. 
The  story  of  this  is  told  in  the  Due  de  Eroglie's  "  Diplomatic 
Contemporaine,"  published  a  few  years  ago  in  the  Rev  11  c  dcs 
Deux  Mondcs,  at  Paris.  In  1748,  sent  with  an  inferior 
French  force,  he  was  able  to  deli\-er  Genoa  from  the  English 
and  was  proclaimed  Liberator  by  that  government  and  was 
made  marshal  of  France.  It  was  at  this  time  that  Madame 
de  Pompadour  was  holding  "high  carniwal  at  the  court  of 
F" ranee  "  as  mistress  of  the  king.  She  thought  to  do  herself 
honor  by  proposing  to  marry  a  daughter  whom  she  had  had 
by  Lenormand  d'Etioles  to  the  Due  de  Fronsac,  son  of  the 
Marshal  de  Richelieu.  He  gave  his  refusal  in  the  following 
manner  :  "That  it  would  surely  be  too  great  an  honor,  but 
that  as  his  son  through  his  mother  belonged  to  the  House  of 
Lorraine,  it  would  be  necessary  for  her  to  ask  permission 
of  the  head  of  that  house,  who  was  the  empress-queen." 
For  this  reply,  Madame  de  Pompadour  never  forgave 
Richelieu. 

In  the  campaign  against  England  of  1756  he  chased  her 
armies  from  Fort  Mahon  and  in  1757  cont|uered  Hanover 
and  captured  the  entire  Britisli  army  of  the  Duke  of  Cumber- 
land. He  married  three  times  :  I'irst,  a  daugliter  of  the  Due 
de  Noailles,  secondly.  Mile,  de  (luise,  Princess  tic  Lorraine 
of  the  imperial  family  of  Austria  (by  whom  lie  had  two  sons, 
the   Due  de  Fronsac,  and  a  daughter  who  married  the  Comte 


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FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  63 

d'Egmont),  and  thirdly,  in  1780,  Madame  de  Rothe.  He 
was  called  "the  man  of  his  century."  He  died  August  8, 
1788. 

Armand  de  ViCxNerot  du  Plessis,  Dug  de  Fronsac, 
eldest  son  of  the  above,  by  the  Princess  of  Lorraine,  married 
first  Mile.  d'Hautefort,  secondly,  Mile,  de  Galifet.  His  son 
was  : 

Armand  Emmanuel  de  ViciXEROx-DuPLEssis,  Due  de 
Richelieu,  Due  de  Fronsac,  Minister  of  State  under  Louis 
XVHL  He  commenced,  by  a  brilliant  course  of  studies  at 
Du  Plessis  College,  one  of  the  noble  foundations  of  Cardinal 
Richelieu.  Without  neglecting  literature,  he  became  a  great 
linguist,  speaking  with  easy  fluency  German,  English,  Italian 
and  Russian.  He  was  married  very  young  to  Mile,  de 
Rochechouart,  but  had  no  children.  In  order  to  learn  the 
service  of  arms  he  entered  the  Russian  army  as  commander 
of  battalion  under  Marshal  Souvarow  in  the  Turkish  cam- 
paign, in  which  for  merit  and  bravery  he  received  a  golden 
sword  from  the  limpress  Catherine.  This  was  during  the 
French  Revolution,  when  the  royalty  and  nobility  of  France 
were  scattered  in  foreign  parts.  The  Emperor  Alexander 
appointed  him  in  1803  governor  of  Southern  Russia,  and 
Odessa,  which  he  found  a  miserable  village  without  a  street, 
became  under  his  management  the  most  beautiful  and  pros- 
perous city  of  eastern  Europe,  gaining  80,000  inhabitants 
during  the  eleven  years  of  his  administration.  His  new 
government  he  protected  by  military  skill  from  the  inroads 
of  Turks,  Bulgarians  and  Circassians.  He  founded  more 
than  I  GO  villages  in  this  part  of  Russia  and  proved  himself 
by  his  humanity  and  justice  a  most  able  ruler.  After  the 
Bourbons  were  restored  in  France  in  18  15,  Richelieu  returned 
and  was  named  Minister  of  F"oreign  Affairs  and  President  of 
the  Council.  In  this  capacity  he  was  to  negotiate  the  particu- 
lars of  a  treaty  which  had  been  imposed  on  France  by  the 
different  Powers,  which  would  have  deprived  France  of  strong 


64  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

places,  territory  and  population.  By  his  personal  influence 
with  Alexander  of  Russia,  he  won  over  that  Power,  and 
obtained  a  great  amelioration  of  the  hardships  which  the 
others  had  imposed  on  France.  For  his  great  services  to 
the  State  when  he  retired  from  his  office  of  minister  of 
state,  the  king  and  parliament  accorded  him  an  immense 
indemnity  which  he  employed  in  founding  a  hospital  in 
Bordeaux.  When  King  George  IV  ascended  the  throne  of 
England,  the  Due  de  Richelieu  and  de  Fronsac  was  sent  to 
represent  the  King  of  France.  Again  in  1820,  he  was  called 
to  be  President  of  the  Council  of  Ministers,  which  office  he 
resigned  the  next  year.      He  died  in  Paris,  May  17,  1822. 


THE   VISCOUNT   DE   FRONSAC   IN   THE 

SEIGNEURIAL   ORDER    OF   CANADA 

Nicolas  Denys,  Vicomte  de  Fronsac,  Governor  and 
Viceroy  of  Acadia,  Gaspasia  and  Newfoundland  (for  pedigree 
see  p.  43).  He  was  born  in  the  city  of  Tours  in  1598  ;  son 
of  Jacques  Denys,  Sieur  de  la  Thibaudiere,  Captain  of  the 
Royal  Guard,  and  Mile.  Cosnier  de  Besseau  whose  brother, 
Emilien  Cosnier,  was  one  of  the  "  Hundred  Gentlemen  of  the 
King."  Nicolas  and  his  brother  Simon  were  the  chosen 
heirs  of  Captain  Jehan  Denys  and  his  wife.  Marguerite 
Forsyth  de  Fronsac  of  Honfleur,  to  claims  which  Capt. 
Jehan  Denys  had  in  America,  deriving  through  their  common 
ancestor,  Captain  Jehan  Denys,  the  great  explorer  of  1506. 
In  1632  he  obtained  the  favor  of  his  relative,  the  Cardinal 
Richelieu,  who  gave  him  a  commission  in  the  military  suite  of 
the  admiral,  Isaac  de  Launoy,  Comte  de  Razilli,  who  was 
ready  to  sail  to  America  as  Governor  of  the  Maritime 
Provinces  of  Canada.  In  addition,  Denys  was  named  lord 
proprietor  and  governor  of  Cape  Breton.  In  this  new  field 
he  established  the  towns  of  Chedebuctoo  (Guysborough)  and 
St.  Pierre,  and  founded  the  fort  at  Canso  and  another,  which 
was  his  chief  residence,  at  Nipisiguit.  He  brought  over 
colonists  from  P'rance,  instituted  the  culture  of  cereals  and 
promoted  the  fisheries  and  fur  trade.  He  chased  the  English 
out  of  the  islands  of  Brion  and  La  Madeleine.  The  prosperity 
he  was  building  up  excited  the  cupidity  and  envy  of  rivals 
(after  the  death  of  de  Razilli)  all  the  more  because  he,  as  a 
man  of  education,  was  liberal  in  religious  views.  De  Razilli 
had  named  Denys  as  his  successor  in  the  government,  but  the 
cabal  of  rivals  planned  to  deprive  him  of  that  office  and  of 
his  lands  as  well.  One  Giraudiere,  recognized  by  the  others 
6s 


66  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

as  governor,  took  ship  and  sailed  for  Cape  Breton  for  this 
purpose.  Denys  was  employing  his  men  about  commercial 
labors  when  the  enemy  appeared  with  an  armed  ship.  Girau- 
diere  attempted  to  terrorize  Denys'  men  by  declaring  himself 
to  be  the  king's  governor,  that  Denys  was  under  arrest,  and 
that  those  who  defied  the  king's  authority  would  be  guilty  of 
high  treason.  But  Denys  was  not  to  be  intimidated.  He 
persuaded  some  of  his  men  to  man  the  fort,  and  training  his 
guns  on  Giraudiere's  ship  he  threatened  to  sink  it  if  Girau- 
diere  approached  nearer.  At  the  same  time,  to  quiet  the 
fears  of  his  men,  he  offered  to  go  to  France  with  Giraudiere 
and  let  the  king  decide  between  them.  To  this  Giraudiere 
agreed.  And  the  king  not  only  confirmed  Denys  in  the  gov- 
ernorship of  Acadia,  Gaspasie  and  Newfoundland,  etc.,  by 
commission  of  January  30,  1654,  but  made  him  viceroy,  with 
power  to  make  treaties  of  trade  and  war  or  peace  for  the 
protection  of  the  king's  dominion  and  with  the  privilege  of 
granting  honors  for  the  advancement  of  merit.  All  officers 
of  the  king  coming  from  over  sea  in  Denys'  government  were 
ordered  to  obey  Denys  as  they  would  the  king.  But  a  great 
calamity  came  on  Denys  which  paralyzed  his  further  efforts 
for  the  country.  By  a  conflagration  at  St.  Pierre  his  ships  and 
store-houses  were  burned.  Then  he  retired  to  his  chateau  al 
Nipisiguit  and  wrote  his  history  of  North  America  with  a 
natural  history  of  the  country  —  the  first  history  of  America 
in  the  l^'rench  language,  which  was  published  at  Paris  in  1672, 
on  one  of  the  visits  which  he  made  to  his  wife  and  daughter 
who  were  at  Honfleur.  Me  was  recommended  by  Talon,  the 
intendant  of  New  France,  to  be  recognized  as  succeeding  to 
the  title  of  de  Fronsac,  which  title,  as  a  seigneurie,  was 
awarded  him  in  the  Seigneurial  Order  of  New  France  b)'  tlie 
king,  Louis  XIV.  The  historian  Charlevoix  declares  Denys 
de  l''ronsac  to  ha\e  been  one  of  llie  best  instructed  and  most 
useful  governors  of  New  h" ranee.  That  Dcuns  saw  in  Canada 
a  place  of  future  i)ower,   wealth  and   empire,  the  e.xcjuisitely 


FORSYTH    DE    FROXSAC  67 

written  preface  of  the  history  addressed  to  the  king  is  brought 
in  evidence :  "  Sire,  —  The  effects  of  Your  Royal  protection 
make  themselves  so  efficacious  wherever  navigation  and  com- 
merce extend,  that  if  my  duty  and  inclination  had  not  led  me 
to  inscribe  this  work  to  you,  I  would  have  been  obliged  to  do 
it  by  the  weight  of  reason.  Canada  has  commenced  to 
breathe  only  since  the  attentifjn  of  Your  Majesty  has  gi\-en 
fresh  vitality  to  this  wavering  colony.  Truly,  Acadia  would 
have  been  in  the  hands  of  our  neighbors  had  not  the  same 
care  watched  for  what  would  enrich  your  subjects  through 
maritime  commerce  ;  but.  Sire,  since  the  country  of  which  I 
take  the  libert^'  to  present  you  with  a  description,  forms  the 
principal  part  of  New  France,  the  most  useful  and  the  easiest 
peopled,  I  dare  to  hope  that  Your  Majesty  might  make  to  it 
some  application  of  that  uni\-ersal  means  by  which  we  see 
every  day  abundance  brought  out  of  what  was  formerly 
unfruitful.  Thirty-five  or  forty  years  of  frequentation  and 
dwelling  in  this  part  of  America  where,  for  the  last  fifteen  years, 
I  ha\-e  had  the  honor  to  command  fur  Your  Majesty,  have  given 
me  a  knowledge  of  its  fertility.  I  have  had  leisure  to  examine 
and  be  con\'inced  of  the  ad\antages  offered  for  na\'al  archi- 
tecture, and  of  the  means  for  establishing  permanent  fisheries 
with  an  almost  incredible  gain  in  economy.  .  .  .  Sire,  this 
country,  such  and  better  yet  than  I  can  represent  it,  in  order 
to  become  profitable,  has  need  of  those  fortunate  influences 
which  Your  Majesty  may  see  among  his  neighbors.  The 
treasures  with  which  Spain  is  enriched  might,  perhaps,  be  )et 
in  America,  but  for  the  encouragement  given  to  Christopher 
Columbus  by  Ferdinand  and  Isabella. 

"Although  they  w^ere  but  quasi-conjectures  of  the  country 
which  he  proposed  to  discover,  and  the  riches  thereof,  now 
real,  were  but  in  imagination,  his  constancy  triumphed  over 
the  refusals  which  he  had  received  from  others  and  a  favoring 
audience  gained  for  the  king  of  Spain  that  which  the  prede- 
cessors of   Your   Majesty  had   treated  as  a  chimera.      Sire,  I 


68  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

do  not  propose  the  discovery  of  an  unknown  land  or  promise 
mines  of  gold.  There  may  be  such  in  New  France.  I  offer 
only  the  experience  I  have  gained  after  so  many  years.  I 
hope  that  these  will  procure  an  audience,  which  will  give  me 
the  means  of  explaining  to  Your  Majesty  those  things  which 
I  cannot  make  public.  In  awaiting  this  grace,  find  it  well. 
Sire,  that  with  my  work,  I  consecrate  what  yet  remains  of  life 
to  the  service  of  Your  Majesty,  and  that  this  offers  an  occa- 
sion of  testifying,  with  how  much  zeal,  respect  and  submission 
I  am  Your  Majesty's  very  humble,  very  obedient  and  very 
faithful  subject  and  serviteur.      Den  vs." 

He  married,  in  Tours,  Marguerite  de  la  Faye,  who  remained 
in  France.  He  died  about  1687  at  Nipisiguit.  He  had  one 
son  and  a  daughter  who  married  her  cousin,  Capt.  James 
Forsaith.     He  was  succeeded  by  his  only  son  : 

Richard  Denys,  Vicomte  de  Fronsac,  Governor  of 
Gaspasie  and  Seigneur  of  Miramichi.  The  seigneurie,  named 
de  Fronsac  from  his  father's  title,  which  he  inherited  in  New 
Brunswick,  embraced  390,600  acres  and  is  marked  in  the  map 
of  the  Acadian  period  of  New  Brunswick  in  the  Transactions  of 
the  Royal  Society  of  Canada  for  1900.  The  Strait  between 
Cape  Breton  and  the  main  land  had  been  named  de  Fronsac, 
also  in  honor  of  his  father,  but  under  the  English  administra- 
tion these  souvenirs  of  the  founder  of  Cape  Breton  have  been 
assiduously  removed.  Richard  was  born  in  Tours.  He 
married  first,  Anne  Parabego,  second,  Francjoise,  daughter  of 
Jacques  Cailteau,  Sieur  de  Chami)ficury.  He  was  drowned 
by  the  vessel  in  which  he  was  sailing  at  the  time  being  tlc- 
stroyed  in  a  storm.     He  was  succeeded  by  his  son  : 

Nicolas  Denys,  Vicomte  de  Fronsac,  whose  entire 
family  with  himself  perished  in  an  epidemic  in  the  year  1732. 
The  next  heir  was  : 

The  Hon.  Matthew  l^\)KSArni  (for  ])edigree  see  p.  16), 
descended  from  Capt.  James  r\)rsaith  and  Marguerite  Denys 
de  Fronsac,  daughter  of  the  Gov.  Nicolas  Denys,  Vicomte  de 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 


69 


Fronsac,  etc.  Matthew  was  born  in  County  Ayr,  Scotland, 
in  1699.  He  was  endowed  by  nature  and  favored  by  educa- 
tion. His  father's  immediate  family  were  friendly  to  the  cause 
of  the  Stuarts,  whom  they  regarded  as  the  legitimate  sovereigns 
of  the  country,  and  they  were  said  to  have  been  implicated  in 
the  Earl  of  Marr's  uprising  of  171 5.  At  any  rate,  suspicions 
of  the  partisans  of  the  House  of  Hanover  were  so  strong 
ao-ainst  them   that  thev  were  obliged  to  leave   Scotland.      In 


STRAIT    OF    FRONSAC,    MISNAMED    CANSO 

Engraving  courtesy  of  Plant  S.  S.  Co. 


escaping,  it  is  said  that  Matthew  wounded  one  of  the  Whig 
officers  with  his  sword.  He  sought  safet}'  for  a  time  in 
Ireland,  where  his  royalist  convictions  were  much  strengthened 
b}'  beholding  the  injurious  effects  of  parliamentary  go\ern- 
ment  there.  He  married  Esther,  daughter  of  Robert  Graham 
of  County  Fermanagh,  whose  wife,  Janet  Hume,  belonged  to 
the  noble  family  of  Hume  of  Castle  Hume  and  Hume 
Wood,  whose  estates  have  passed  to  the  present  Lord  Loftus, 
Marquis  of  Ely.     The  Grahams  had  settled  in  Ireland  since 


70  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

1620  (one  of  whom  was  Sir  Hector  Graham  of  Lea  Castle). 
They  were  from  the  Cumberland  border  and  were  descended 
from  the  Earls  of  Menteath.  The  Grahams  persuaded  him 
to  go  to  America  with  them  and  a  number  of  other  families 
who  were  desirous  of  escaping  from  the  parliamentary  abuses 
which  were  heaped  on  the  country.  They  landed  at  Boston 
—  Matthew,  his  wife  and  sons  —  about  1740,  and  moved  to 
the  Presbyterian  colony  at  Chester,  New  Hampshire.  He 
had  brought  with  him  much  wealth  in  money  and  family 
plate,  and  he  purchased  to  begin  with  the  Worthen  Mill,  and 
the  saw  and  grist-mills.  He  found  himself  surrounded  by  a 
singular  population  —  the  Puritan  Yankee  —  jealous,  suspi- 
cious, avaricious,  religiously  intolerant  and  hypocritical.  In 
this  inhospitable  element,  the  little  Presbyterian  colony  was 
as  isolated  as  though  in  a  desert.  Prom  the  first,  Matthew 
became  the  chief  man  and  counsellor  of  the  settlement.  He 
represented  the  Presbyterian  parish  before  the  provincial 
legislature,  was  deacon  of  the  church,  and  consented  to  lect- 
ure during  the  absence  of  the  minister.  But  a  hostile  par- 
liament followed  the  few  partisans  of  the  Stuarts  who  had 
crossed  the  sea  in  company  with  others.  Twelve  of  the 
thirteen  colonies  had  received  charters  from  the  Stuart  kings, 
and  although  these  charters  had  been  modified,  the  sense  of 
them  recognized  the  Stuart  heir  as  king.  Hence  the  desire 
of  the  London  parliament  to  revoke  them.  The  result  gave 
an  excuse  to  the  radicals,  factious  and  disloyal  to  an\'  prin- 
ciple, in  the  colonies,  to  join  the  enemies  of  the  empire  in 
1776,  to  turn  the  true  cause  for  a  Stuart  declaration  into  the 
propaganda  of  a  hybrid  republic.  But  until  tliis  propaganda 
was  revealed  all  parties  were  united  to  resist  parliamentary 
encroachment.  Matthew,  himself,  became  I'resitlent  of  the 
Chester  Connnittee  of  I'ublic  Sately  in  1776,  but  he  was 
distinctly  o])posed  to  democratic  tendencies.  lie  li\ed  long 
enough,  however,  to  see  the  "Republic"  establishetl  and  to 
have    his    royalism    confirmed   by   the    treacher\-,   insincerit), 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  7 1 

vulgarity  and  cynicism  of  its  government.  He  died  in  1790, 
leaving  as  a  legend  to  his  family  the  phrase  :  "A  royal  form 
of  government  conduces  to  the  best  interests  of  a  people." 
His  principal  heir  was  : 

William  Forsaith  (Vicomte  de  Fronsac),  ensign  in  royal 
colonial  troops,  born  in  County  Fermanagh,  Ireland,  in  1740. 
He  was  educated  in  his  father's  household,  for  there  was  no 
school  or  college  in  the  colonies  superior  in  advantages  to 
that  household.  While  yet  very  young,  he  was  solicited 
to  teach  those  of  Chester  some  of  the  higher  studies.  Dur- 
ing the  Indian  War  of  1763-65  he  entered  the  royal  colonial 
militia,  became  ensign,  was  wounded,  taken  prisoner  and 
remained  a  captive  among  the  Indians  for  two  )'ears.  When 
the  troubles  began  between  the  Metropolis  and  the  Colonies, 
he  signed  the  articles  of  the  "Minute  Men,''  who  were  obli- 
gated by  these  articles  to,  I,  Defend  the  person,  Crown  and 
dignity  of  the  king;  to,  II,  Defend  the  chartered  liberties  of 
the  colonies,  and  to,  III,  Obey  superior  officers  with  armed 
support.  So  long  as  the  chartered  liberties  were  threatened, 
the  "Minute  Men"  were  in  arms,  but  in  1778,  when  the 
British  Parliament  restored  all  those  liberties  and  conceded 
to  the  demands  of  the 'colonists,  the  "Minute  Men"  dis- 
banded. William,  as  a  royalist  officer,  who  had  sworn  to 
support  the  king  before  and  as  a  "  Minute  Man,"  could  not 
look  with  approval  on  the  dishonest  position  assumed  by 
the  American  Congress  party  after  1778,  and  he  retired 
to  his  farm  at  Deny,  now  Deering,  N.  H.  He  was 
too  intelligent  not  to  perceive  that  the  democracy  that 
was  arising  would  sweep  away  the  refinements  and  honors 
that  had  been  bred  in  colonial  society  under  the  Royal  gov- 
ernment. With  two  others  he  founded  the  Derry  Public 
Library.  He  had  married  Jane,  daughter  of  James  Wilson, 
"  Surveyor  of  the  High  Ways  of  Chester,"  who  had  come 
from  Ulster,  Ireland,  and  lived  to  the  remarkable  age  of  118. 
James  Wilson's  wife  was    Mary,   daughter  of    John   Shirley, 


72  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

cousin  of  Sir  William  Shirley,  who  was  Governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts in  1 74 1,  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  British 
forces  in  North  America,  whose  family  arms  are  emblazoned 
on  the  illuminated  window  at  the  State  House  in  Boston, 
with  those  of  the  other  royal  governors  of  that  colony.  It  is 
stated  in  Chase's  History  of  Chester  that  John  Shirley  was 
a  relative  also  of  the  Countess  of  Huntington,  the  patron  of 
Westley.      William  died  at  Deering  in  1808.      His  son  was  : 

Thomas  Forsaith,  entitled  de  Fronsac  in  1798.  "He 
was  born  in  Deering,  N.  H.,  September  i,  1775.  At  the 
age  of  eleven,  in  charge  of  a  cousin  who  was  an  officer 
in  the  merchant  marine,  he  was  sent  to  France  to  be  educated. 
During  the  French  Revolution  of  1792,  he  joined  the  Royalists, 
brigade  de  Navarre,  Marquis  de  Montmarte  commanding,  with 
the  Prussians  and  Austrians  against  the  French  Republicans. 
In  1798,  he  was  entitled  de  Fronsac  in  the  correspondence  of 
the  Emegres.  He  went  to  the  French  West  Indies  in  the 
same  year  on  some  mission  and  finally  to  Savannah,  Ga., 
in  1800.  He  entered  into  the  West  India  trade  after  the 
sale  of  Louisiana,  by  Napoleon  I,  to  the  United  States  in 
1803,  settling  at  Portland,  Me.,  where  he  joined  the 
Masonic  Order  and  was  junior  warden  of  the  Ancient  Land- 
mark Lodge.  He  was  interested  with  the  earliest  project  of 
a  railway  from  Montreal  to  Portland  in  1836,  completed  in 
1854,  after  his  death.  He  was  a  fine  musician  on  the  violon- 
cello, versed  in  languages,  history  and  literature,  and  a  com- 
petent man  of  affairs.  He  married,  in  1809,  Sallie,  daughter 
of  Capt.  John  Pray  of  the  colonial  service,  by  wife,  Mary, 
daughter  of  Col.  John  Hamilton  who  had  raised  a  regiment 
for  the  Crown  in  North  Carolina,  in  1776,  and  who  was 
British  Consul  at  Norfolk,  Va.,  after  the  war  of  xyyG-^T,. 
The  Prays  were  also  of  French  origin,  from  the  Pra}-e  family 
of  Lau.sanne,  whose  arms  are:  "  D'azur,  au  coeur  d'or  entre 
deu.\  etoiles  en  premier  et  une  croissant  en  pointe,  d'  argent." 
Thomas  died  at  Portland,  in    December,  1849,  and   is   buried 


CAPT.    FKEUERIC    FORSYTH 

Vicomte  de  Fronsac  in  the  Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada 

( 1819-1891) 


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in  the  Western  Cemetery.  He  was  a  man  of  sterling  charac- 
ter and  resokition,  kind  to  the  poor,  setting  apart  each  year  a 
sum  of  money  to  purchase  provisions  for  the  indigent.  His 
son  was  : 

Captain  Frederic  Forsyth,  Viscount  de  Fronsac  in 
the  Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada,  etc.,  born  at  Portland, 
March  22,  1819.  After  an  academic  education  and  military 
training  he  entered  his  father's  exporting  office  on  Ingraham's 
Wharf  until  the  discovery  of  gold  in  California,  in  1849,  when 
he  joined  with  Captain  Thing,  of  Boston,  to  raise  a  military 
company  of  pioneers  to  march  across  the  plains  to  the  gold- 
fields  of  California.  The  party  of  seventy-five,  armed  as 
mounted  riflemen,  proceeded  to  St.  Louis  and  from  there 
after  weeks  of  hardship,  danger  and  hostile  adventure  in  the 
Indian  country,  during  which  time  they  lost  fifteen  men,  they 
arrived.  Not  blessed  by  fortune  in  the  gold  mines,  he  went  to 
Nicaragua  and  was  agent  for  the  English  Navigation  Com- 
pany at  Realejo.  He  returned  to  Portland,  to  learn  for  the 
first  time  of  the  death  of  his  father,  which  occurred  soon  after 
he  had  started. with  the  pioneers.  He  commanded  there  an 
independent  company,  called  the  Rifle  Corps,  which  had  been 
founded  in  18  10  by  Judge  A.  A.  Atherton,  son  of  an  United  Em- 
pire Loyalist  of  1776-83,  many  of  whose  members  were  of  Brit- 
ish or  Canadian  origin.  This  company  in  i860,  on  the  occasion 
of  the  visit  at  Portland  of  H.  R.  H.  the  Prince  of  Wales 
(now  King  Edward  VH),  was  joined  to  another,  the  whole 
under  command  of  Captain  Forsyth,  as  the  guard  of  honor  of 
the  Prince  during  his  stay  in  Portland.  In  1879,  with  his 
elder  son  and  some  gentlemen  in  Canada  and  in  the  States, 
they  organized  the  Aryan  Order  of  St.  George  of  the  Empire, 
which  in  itself  is  a  reorganization  of  all  the  royalist  orders 
that  had  existed  on  the  American  continent  since  the  time  of 
the  Emperor  Charles  Quint,  in  the  i6th  century,  who  by 
imperial  decree  had  incorporated  his  estates  in  America  with 
the    Holy   Roman  Empire.      The  principal  of  these    royalist 


74  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

orders  reorganized  in  the  Aryan  Order  are  the  descendants 
of  the  Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada  and  Louisiana  ;  of  the 
Order  of  the  Baronets  of  Nova  Scotia  ;  of  the  United  Empire 
Loyahsts,  of  1776-83  ;  of  the  Landgraves  and  Caciques  of 
Carolina ;  of  the  Lords  of  the  Manours  of  Maryland  ;  of  the 
Lords  Patroons  of  New  Netherlands,  etc.  The  membership 
of  the  order  is  confined  to  such  descendants,  none  being- 
eligible  but  those  of  the  White,  or  Aryan  race.  The  purpose 
of  the  order  is  to  secure  the  recognition  of  titles  which  any 
of  the  descendants  might  be  possessed  of  legitimately,  and  to 
preserve  armorials,  genealogies  and  traditions  connected  with 
the  various  royalist  regimes  to  which  the  orders  belonged 
on  the  American  continent.  Captain  Forsyth,  Viscount  de 
Fronsac,  was  the  first  Chancellor  of  the  Order.  The  first 
meeting  was  held  October  28,  1880,  in  the  Maryland  His- 
torical Society's  Hall  in  Baltimore,  where  the  second  Chan- 
cellor, Lieut. -Gen.  A.  P.  Stewart,  of  Mississippi,  was  elected. 
The  apparent  bearing  of  the  Order  was  commented  on  in  the 
American  press  from  one  end  of  the  country  to  the  other. 
The  New  York  press  declared  that  it  aimed  at  overthrowing 
the  republic  and  establishing  an  empire.  The  Philadelphia 
press  and  others  said  it  was  a  serious  menace  to  republican 
institutions.  Most  of  its  membership  began  to  be  recruited 
in  the  South  and  the  headquarters  in  1892  — a  year  after  the 
death  of  Captain  P'orsyth  —  were  moved  to  Savannah,  Gix., 
under  the  Chancellorship  of  Ur.  Joseph  Gaston  Bulloch  of 
that  city,  since  which  time,  owing  to  such  members  there  not 
seeing  the  anomaly  between  belonging  to  an  order  witli  a 
royal  f(Jundation  and  professing  adherence  to  the  preambles 
of  a  republic  at  the  same  time,  a  division  has  resulted,  and 
the  royalist  members  have  transferretl  their  headciuarters  to 
Canada. 

Captain  Forsyth  in  addition  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Odd  Fellows  and  of  the  New  England  Society  of  California 
Pioneers.      He  was  a  man  of  high  honor,   to  do  his  tlut)-  as 


FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC  75 

he  conceived  it ;  he  was  hospitable,  high-minded,  chivah'ous  ; 
patient  under  difficulties  ;  serene  and  unmoved  amidst  the  clash 
of  misfortune;  a  "gentleman  of  the  old  school  "  to  the  last. 
He  died  June  ii,  1891,  and  is  buried  in  Evergreen  Cemetery. 
His  wife,  who  survived  him  until  1898,  was  Harriette  Marie, 
daughter  of  Major-General  Joseph  Scott  Jewett,  of  Scar- 
borough, Me.  (see  p.  88).  By  her  he  had  two  sons,  Frederic 
Gregory  and  Thomas  Scott  (see  p.  80).  He  changed  the 
spelling  of  the  name  Forsaith  to  the  one-time  form  of  Forsyth. 
His  elder  son  : 

Frederic  Gregory  Forsyth  de  Froxsac,  vicomte  in  the 
Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada,  was  born  in  Montreal,  but  li\-ed 
from  infancy  in  the  United  States.  The  close  contact  in 
which  he  was  brought  to  the  republic  ;  the  picture  of  its  un- 
ethical c\nicism  and  misrule;  of  the  middle  classes  destroyed 
in  quarrels  between  those  who,  b)-  dishonesty  and  intrigue 
with  politicians,  have  acquired  millions  as  monopolists  on  the 
one  hand,  and  the  ravenous,  ignorant  and  self-seeking  labor- 
organizations  on  the  other ;  of  universal  equality  relieved  only 
by  the  money  value  of  each  individual  to  the  extinction  of 
every  idea  of  honor,  tradition  and  merit  ;  no  orderly  subordi- 
nation ;  no  discipline ;  no  monarchical  idea  of  fealty  that 
purifies  the  soul  and  makes  it  leal  by  its  teaching  of  self- 
abnegation ; —  from  this  contact,  as  an  author,  he  could  speak 
with  experience.  His  first  poem  was  published  at  the  age  of 
13.  In  French  and  English  periodicals  he  contributed  to  the 
history  of  England,  France,  Canada,  United  States,  and  also  to 
general  historical  reviews  of  other  lands.  He  is  quoted  in  the 
Carmichael  Edition  of  Taswell-Langmead's  "  Constitutional 
History  of  England  "  as  one  of  the  most  reliable  of  the  better 
class  of  American  historians.  He  is  considered  an  authority 
on  heraldry.  In  1893  he  was  attached  for  military  course  to 
the  school  of  the  Royal  Canadian  Infantry  at  Fredericton, 
N.  B.  In  1895,  anticipating  the  need  of  the  loyalists  and 
seigneurs  in  Canada,  he  founded  the  United  Empire  Loyalist 


-J^  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Association  at  Montreal  and  was  its  first  president,  being  suc- 
ceeded the  same  year  by  Sir  William  Johnson,  Baronet  of 
Chambly,  and  becoming  himself  Marechal  de  Blason  of  the 
Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada  —  the  Baron  de  Longueuil  being 
the  chancellor  —  both  of  these  deriving  from  the  precedent  of 
the  Aryan  Order  of  St.  George  of  the  Empire  of  1879-80. 
Spreading  rapidly,  the  United  Empire  Loyalist  Association, 
as  he  founded  it,  established  headquarters  at  Montreal,  Toronto 
(1896),  and  Halifax  (1897);  a  previous  branch  succeeding'the 
Aryan  Order  of  1879-80  had  been  established  in  1883  at 
St.  John,  N.  B.  The  efforts  of  the  loyalists  effaced  the  an- 
nexation propaganda  that  Yankee  intrigue  was  fostering  in 
Canada  and  did  more  to  exalt  the  royalist  influence  and  im- 
perial connection  than  all  the  commercial  schemes,  preferential 
trade  formulae  and  imperial  league  teachings  combined,  and 
which  appeared  only  after  the  loyalists  had  led  the  way  —  for 
they  had  with  them  that  which  Burke  said  (tradition)  "  Though 
lighter  than  air  holds  stronger  than  iron,"  what  Beaconsfield 
declared  (sentiment)  "  Is  sole  foundation  of  national  greatness." 
His  last  project  of  [903  of  introducing  into  Canada  a  colony 
of  French  royalist  families,  whose  sons'  future,  denied  by  the 
French  Republic,  would  cause  them  to  be  glad  to  come  if 
given  encouragement,  was  favored  by  the  royalist  press  of 
Canada,  English  and  French,  and  may  bring  fruit.  The 
Seigneurial  Order,  of  which  he  is  the  Herald-Marshal,  was 
established  by  King  Louis  XIV  in  Canada  in  1663  :  its  rights, 
titles  and  precedence  were  recognized  by  King  (icorge  of 
England  in  the  "  CajMtulations  of  Montreal  "  of  1760,  and  to 
the  Seigneurs  who  defended  Quebec  against  the  American 
invasion  of  1775  additional  recognition  had  been  given  in  the 
act  which  accorded  precedence  "To  those  and  their  cliildren 
who  joined  the  royal  standard  in  the  late  war  (1775-83)," 
P'ounded  on  these  recognitions  and  obligations  from  the  i""rench 
and  l^rilisli  crowns,  he  has  advanced  the  (lignit\-  of  the 
Seigneui'ial  ( )r(ler  to  its  present  position. 


FREDERIC  GREGORY  FORSYTH  DE  FROXSAC 

X'icomte  de  Fronsac  in  Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada 


BIOGRAPHIES 

Capt.  Alexander  Forsyth  was  born  at  Failzerton  Manor, 
Ayrshire,  1689;  son  of  Walter  Forsyth,  provost  of  the 
College  and  Subdeaneries  of  Glasgow  (see  p.  19),  by  wife,  his 
cousin,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Capt.  James  Forsaith  *  of  the 
French  service,  who  married  Marguerite,  daughter  of  the  Vis- 
count and  Governor  Nicolas  Denysde  Fronsac,  of  Acadia,  etc. 
Like  his  brother  James  he  was  attached  to  the  cause  of 
legitimate  monarchy  in  the  person  of  the  Stuart  Kings,  and 
favored  the  stand  taken  by  Lord  Marr  in  171  5.  On  the  un- 
fortunate issue  of  that  cause,  he  came  to  Boston,  where,  on 
December  12,  171 7,  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Evans,  of 
Boston,  and  entered  into  the  life  of  the  New  World.  With 
the  wealth  which  he  had  inherited  and  brought  with  him  he 
became  interested  in  the  foreign  commerce  of  the  town,  and 
by  his  education,  refinement  of  person  and  energy,  he  was 
recognized  speedily  as  one  of  the  foremost  among  the  resident 
gentry.  In  the  course  of  his  residence  he  filled  many  and 
important  occasions.  His  military  experience  caused  him  to 
be  chosen  as  captain  in  the  Colonial  regiment.  Li  1733  he 
was  on  the  committee  of  freeholders  to  chose  seven  selectmen. 
Before  this,  in  1724,  he  was  a  commissioner  of  the  colony  to 
draw  up  a  treaty  with  the  Western  Indians  of  New  England. 
In  1735  and  for  many  years  after  he  was  selectman  of  Boston, 
and  his  autograph  is  printed  in  the  second  volume  of  the 
Memorial  History  of  Boston.  In  1742  he  was  one  of  the  mili- 
tary commission  to  plan  the  fortifications  about  Boston. 
Throughout  these  years,  as  selectmen,  he  was  on  the  com- 
mittee of  visitation  of  the  public  institutions  in  company  with 
the  governor  and  His  Majesty's  justices.     He  was  a  patron  of 

*  The  ai  in  French  is  pronounced  like  y  in  Scottish  or  English  ;  Forsaith-Forsyth. 


78  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

art  and  literature  and  one  of  the  subscribers  to  the  fund  for 
the  publication  of  Prince's  "  Chronology.'" 

In  the  meantime  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth,  died  July  28,  1726, 
aged  30,  leaving  three  small  children,  one  of  whom,  John, 
died  September  8,  1727,  aged  14  months;  both  buried  in 
tomb  65,  Copp's  Hill  Cemetery,  Boston.  About  1730  he 
married  again  for  second  wife,  Miss  Deborah  Briggs,  of 
Boston,  and  by  her  had  a  son  John.  At  the  close  of  the 
Colonial  War  in  1763  he  returned  to  Ayrshire,  Scotland, 
being  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  son  John,  where  he  died 
"full  of  years  and  honors,"  and  in  the  consciousness  of  having 
done  his  duty  with  integrity  and  zeal  in  a  long  and  bu.sy 
career. 


James  Bennett  Forsyth  was  born  in  Brookline,  a  suburb 
of  Boston,  Mass.,  February  2,  1850.  His  parents  moved  to 
the  Roxbury  District  of  Boston  while  he  was  very  young. 
On  account  of  the  unsatisfactory  condition  of  his  health,  he 
was  frequently  kept  out  of  school  for  long  periods,  and  a 
great  deal  of  the  time  he  passed  in  the  office  and  factories  of 
the  Boston  Belting  Company,  with  which  his  father  was  con- 
nected, and  which  were,  and.  still  are,  located  in  the  Ro.xbury 
District  of  Boston.  He  became  greatly  interested  in  the 
machinery  and  manufacture  of  vulcanized  rubber.  After  his 
health  was  restored,  he  returned  again  to  sch()t)l.  Later  on, 
by  ad\'ice  of  j)hvsicians,  he  was  taken  awa)'  entirely  from  the 
public  school,  as  the  state  of  his  health  would  not  permit  of 
the  confinement  of  study  in  a  schoolroom,  and  continued  his 
education  under  private  instruction. 

He  continued  to  interest  himself  in  the  manufacture  of 
vulcanized  rubber,  and,  later  on,  while  \  ct  \er\  \-oung,  he 
became  connected  with  the  factories  of  the  Company  where, 
in  process  of  time,  he  filled  all  the  important  positions  at  the 
factories,  such  as  clerk,  assistant  su])erinten(lent.  superin- 
tendent,   niauulacturing    agent,   and    director,   and    lor  nearly 


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twenty  years  (1884-1903)  he  has  filled  the  position  of  director 
and  general  manager  of  the  entire  business  of  the  Company. 
It  has  been  very  largely  through  his  efforts  that  the  Com- 
pany has  prospered  so  wonderfully. 

He  has  made  many  important  and  useful  inventions,  all 
connected  with  the  machinery  and  manufactures  of  the  Com- 
pany, and  has  taken  out  more  than  fifty  patents  on  machinery 
and  manufacturing  processes.  A  few  of  his  inventions  are  : 
I,  machinery  for  the  manufacture  of  that  kind  of  hose  which 
is  made  of  duck,  or  canvas,  coated  with  rubber,  and  which  is 
used  very  extensively  in  all  civilized  countries ;  2,  for  the  art 
of  lining  textile  tubes  with  rubber  so  as  to  fit  them  for  use 
as  hose  for  conducting  water,  air,  etc.  Hose  of  this  kind  is 
in  general  use  in  fire-departments  throughout  the  civilized 
world.  It  is  used  also  extensively  in  railway  stations  and 
repair- shops,  public  buildings,  in  mills,  factories,  on  ship-board, 
and  wherever  a  strong,  light-weight  and  durable  hose  is  re- 
quired ;  3,  rubber-covered  rollers,  now  considered  indispen- 
sable for  squeezing,  sizing,  and  calendaring  purposes  in  cotton, 
woolen,  paper,  and  wool-scouring  mills,  print  and  dye  works, 
bleacheries,  tanneries,  etc. ;  4,  improved  methods  in  the  manu- 
facture of  rubber,  gutta  percha,  and  balata  machine  belting, 
used  for  transmitting  power,  coal,  grain  and  ore  conveyors, 
etc. 

His  knowledge  of  the  manufacture  of  mechanical  rubber 
goods,  general  management  of  all  branches  of  the  business, 
and  his  inventions,  have  added  greatly  to  the  great  success, 
prosperity,  and  unrivalled  reputation  of  the  Company. 

His  father  was  the  late  William  Forsyth,  referred  to  in  the 
genealogy  (p.  20).  His  mother's  family,  the  Bennetts,  of 
which  her  father,  Hamilton  Bennett,  was  a  member,  was 
known  in  England  from  the  time  of  the  Norman  Conquest  in 
1066.  The  title  of  the  family  chief  is  Earl  of  Tankarville, 
one  of  whom,  the  Earl  of  Arlington,  in  1663,  was  father-in 
law  of  the  Duke  of  Grafton,  natural  son  of  King  Charles  II 


8o  f^ORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Hamilton  Bennett,  Esq.,  father  of  Mrs.  William  Forsyth, 
was  descended  also  from  the  Hamiltons  of  Boreland,  in  Ayr- 
shire, Scotland,  who  count  as  their  ancestor  that  David 
Hamilton,  Lord  of  Cadzow,  who  is  ancestor  also  of  the  Duke 
of  Hamilton,  the  premier  peer  of  Scotland. 


Thomas  Scott  Forsyth,  son  of  Captain  Frederic,  Vis- 
count de  Fronsac,  by  Harriette  M.,  daughter  of  Gen.  '].  S. 
Jewett,  educated  in  academic  course,  became  devoted  to  music 
vocal  and  instrumental,  to  the  dramatic  art,  elocution  and 
literature.  He  was  a  pupil  of  Don  Giovanni.  In  the  exer- 
cise of  his  profession  he  became  quite  noted  as  a  journalistic 
letter  writer  and  for  storiettes.  He  drilled  pupils  and  pro- 
duced several  dramatic  sketches  of  his  own  composition  in 
Boston,  New  York  and  Philadelphia.  He  has  been  organist 
of  churches  in  those  cities  and  made  the  reputation,  in  1902- 
1903,  of  the  Second  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  of  Phil- 
adelphia for  Sunday  musical  programmes.  As  a  choir-master, 
and  student  of  the  historic  progression  of  music,  he  has  few 
equals  among  the  younger  generation  of  New  \\\)rld  musi- 
cians. He  is  an  Odd  P"ellow  and  on  the  Council  of  the 
Seigneurial  Order  of  Canada,  as  well  as  on  that  of  the  United 
Empire  Loyalists. 


Col.  Joseph  Bell  Forsyth,  of  Quebec.  He  was  son  of 
James  Bell  F"orsyth  (see  p.  11),  by  wife,  l^^anny,  daughter  of 
the  Hon.  Matthew  Bell,  who  raised,  at  his  own  exiK-nse,  a 
squadron  of  cavalry  at  Quebec,  in  1812,  whohad  come  from 
Scotland  bringing  over  the  first  pack  of  hunting  hounds  ever 
seen  at  Three  Rivers,  Canada,  and  induced  the  king  to  gi\e  a 
cuj),  to  be  called  the  "  Kiuj^'-'s  C///>,"  to  be  lun  tore\ei\  \  ear  on 
the  Three  Rivers  Course  for  the  ini])ro\enient  ot  horses  in 
Canada.  This  course  is  held  now  at  Quebec  and  Montreal,  alter- 
nately.  The  Hon.  Mr.  Bell  was  also  a  prominent  member  ol  the 


THOMAS    SCOTT    FORSYTH 


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government  and  the  heir  of  the  Earldom  of  Cromarty  in  Scot- 
land, deriving  in  direct  line  from  that  earl  who  was  so  gallant  a 
supporter  of  the  cause  of  the  Stuarts.  As  his  eldest  child, 
Fanny,  married  the  father  of  Colonel  Forsyth,  it  left  Colonel 
Forsyth  in  direct  heirship  to  this  title,  which  had  been  borne  by 
the  noble  family  of  Mackenzie.  Colonel  Forsyth  has  been  for 
many  years  Collector  of  Customs  for  the  Port  of  Quebec. 
He  was  the  one  who  promoted  the  formation  of  the  school 
for  cavalry  instruction  at  Quebec  and  was  its  first  comman- 
dant. He  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  Quebec  Cavalry 
Regiment  (founded  by  his  grandfather,  the  Hon.  Matthew 
Bell),  which  was  named,  by  permission  of  Queen  Victoria, 
"  The  Queen's  Canadian  Hussars."  He  was  one  of  the  pro- 
moters of  the  Garrison  Club  of  Quebec  and  its  first  presi- 
dent. He  wears  medals  commemorative  of  the  Fenian  raids 
and  for  long  service.  For  years  he  has  been  prominent  in 
Church  of  England  work  and  a  warden  of  the  church.  He 
married  Elizabeth  M.,  daughter  of  the  late  T.  B.  Anderson, 
president  of  the  Bank  of  Montreal,  and  granddaughter  of  the 
Hon.  John  Richardson,  of  the  firm  of  Forsyth  and  Richard- 
son, of  Montreal,  who  were  agents  for  the  North  West  Fur 
Company,  the  early  rivals  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Fur  Company. 


Rev.  Alexander  John  Forsyth,  LL.D.,  was  born  January 
I,  1769,  at  Belhelvie,  near  Aberdeen,  where  his  father,  the  Rev. 
James  Forsyth,  was  minister  and  whom  he  succeeded  in 
pastoral  charge  in  1791.  He  was  educated  at  King's  College, 
Aberdeen,  where  he  took  the  degree  of  M.A.  He  was  very 
greatly  interested  in  chemical  experiments,  especially  with 
fulminating  powders  and  explosive  compounds.  He  invented 
the  percussion  lock  for  musketry  and  the  fulminate  to  accom- 
pany it.  By  this  invention,  the  use  of  the  flint-lock  was  done 
away  with  and  the  entire  method  of  modern  warfare  relating  to 
musketry  was  changed.     The  Emperor  Napoleon,  appreciating 


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the  serious  consequences  of  this  invention,  offered  him  the 
title  of  Count  of  the  Empire,  a  position  at  his  court  and 
^40,000  ($200,000)  for  him  to  come  to  France  and  give  his 
invention  to  the  French  government.  But  Mr.  Forsyth,  with 
a  blindness  to  his  own  personal  advancement  and  to  the  glory 
of  his  own  achievements,  offered  his  invention  freely  to  the 
British  government.  Lord  Brougliam,  who  was  in  the  minis- 
try at  that  time,  and  a  distant  relative,  opened  for  him  a  room 
in  the  Tower  of  London  for  the  conduction  of  his  experi- 
ments in  the  year  1805.  Ii'^  the  next  year,  a  change  of 
ministry  occurred.  Lord  Brougham  was  out,  and  the  new  min- 
istry ordered  Mr.  Forsyth  to  leave  the  tower  and  take  his 
"rubbish"  with  him.  Such  was  the  term  applied  by  the 
ignorant  parasites  of  the  new  government  who  had  been  fois- 
ted on  the  country  by  that  ingenious  device  of  modern  times 
called  "the  will  of  the  majority."  This  "rubbish,"  to  use 
the  language  of  the  encyclopaedia,  consisted  of  "  beautiful  and 
ingenious  applications  of  the  percussion  principle,"  a  prin- 
ciple which  the  Ordnance  Department  adopted  afterwards 
and  which  was  applied  gradually  by  the  army  dei^artments  of 
all  nations  of  the  world.  However,  the  inventor,  who  had 
refused  title,  wealth  and  honors  from  the  greatest  ruler  — 
Napoleon  —  the  world  has  ever  had,  to  offer  the  product  of 
his  skill  and  knowledge  to  Britain  —  his  country  —  was 
allowed  to  dwell  in  obscurity  and  poverty  until  a  year  pre\-ious 
to  his  death  (June  11,  1843)  when  the  magnanimit}'  of  the 
government  accorded  him  ^200  (S  1,000). 


William  Forsyth,  O.C,  LL.D.,  son  of  the  late  Thomas 
Forsyth  of  Liverpool  and  Nova  Scotia  in  Canada,  was  born 
at  Greenock,  Scotland,  in  1812.  He  was  a  graduate  from 
Trinity  C'ollege,  Cambridge,  in  1834  as  B.A.,  standing  third 
among  the  "  classical  trijjos  "  and   second   "Senior   Optimo," 


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also  Chancellor's  medallist  and  Fellow  of  Trinity  and  "  pro- 
ceeded M.A."  in  1837.  HTe  entered  the  bar  at  the  Inner  Tem- 
ple in  1839,  Northern  Circuit  and  Queen's  Counsel  in  1857 
and  Bencher  of  the  Inner  Temple.  He  was  a  member  of 
Parliament  for  Marylebone  and  Cambridge  University;  Coun- 
sel for  the  Secretary  of  State  for  India  and  Commissioner 
for  Cambridge  University.  He  was  a  contributor  to  the 
great  reviews  and  one  of  the  great  authors  of  the  British 
Empire.  His  chief  works  are,  "  On  the  Law  of  Composition 
with  Creditors"  (1841);  "  Hortensius,  or  the  Duties  of  an 
Advocate"  (1849);  "On  the  Law  Relating  to  the  Custody 
of  Infants"  (1850);  "History  of  Trial  by  Jury"  (1852); 
"Napoleon  at  St.  Helena  and  Sir  Hudson  Low"  (1853); 
"  Life  of  Cicero"  (1864);  "Cases  and  Opinions  in  Constitu- 
tional Law"  (1869);  '"Novels  and  Novelists  of  the  XVIII 
Century  in  Illustration  of  the  Manners  and  Morals  of  the 
Age"  (1871);  "Hannibal  in  Italy;  a  Historic  Drama" 
(1872)  ;  "  Essays  Critical  and  Narrative"  (1874)  ;  "  Sclavonic 
Provinces  South  of  the  Danube"  (1876). 


Sir  Thomas  Douglas  Forsyth,  C.B.,  K.C.S.I.,  etc.,  was 
brother  of  the  above.  In  the  biographical  sketch  of  Laurie's 
"Distinguished  AngloTndians,"  2d  series,  p.  199,  is  the  fol- 
lowing :  "  In  some  respects  Sir  Douglas  Forsyth  may  be  con- 
sidered as  having  been  one  of  the  most  remarkable  among  our 
distinguished  Anglo-Indians.  .  .  .  He  was  educated  at  Rugby 
(took  four  medals  at  Cambridge,  and  was  the  first  in  Oriental 
scholarship).  He  entered  the  Bengal  Civil  Service  in  1848, 
when  the  final  conquest  of  the  Punjab  was  in  progress  and 
on  the  eve  of  the  formation  of  the  junior  division  of  the 
Civil  Service.  ...  At  a  very  early  stage  of  his  career,  he 
was  sent  to  this  new  province,  the  organization  of  which  Lord 
Dalhousie,  the  Viceroy,  entrusted  to  the  very  ablest  men  at 
his  disposal,  and  when  the  Mutiny  broke  out,  nine  years  after 


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his  arrival,  he  was  acting  as  Deputy  Commissioner  in  the  Cis- 
Sutlej  States  ...  on  whose  tact  and  firmness  depended  the 
attitude  of  the  protected  Sikh  States.  Mr.  Forsyth  took  a 
bold  initiative  in  calling  on  the  Maharajah  of  Puttiala  for 
assistance,  and  the  appeal  being  promptly  responded  to  by 
that  loyal  chieftain,  awakened  a  responsive  echo  in  the  Sikh 
Chiefs  of  Iheend  and  Nabha.  His  measures  for  the  defense 
of  Umballa  were  prompt  and  sufficient.  He  raised  a  police 
force   of   Sikhs   for   the   purpose   .   .    .  and    provided   for   the 


security  of  the  road  from  I'mballa  to  Kurnaul  u})  to  the  siege 
and  capture  of  Delhi.  The  reputation  he  gained  during  the 
Mutiny  ensured  his  rajjicl  i)ron-iotion  until  he  became  in  due 
course  Commissioner  of  Umballa.  But  in  1869  a  still  more 
important  subject  than  the  management  of  the  Sikhs  had 
come  to  the  front;  and  that  was  our  future  relation  with 
Russia.  Lord  Mayo  had  just  received  the  Ameer  Shere  Ali 
in  durbar  at  Umballa  and  it  was  considered  desirable  to  bring 
the  views  of  the  Indian  government  on  the  Central  Asian 
question  in  a  clear  and  unmistakable  form  before  that  ot  St. 
Petersburg.      Mr.  J-'orsvth  was  considered  tlie  most  competent 


FORSYTH    I.)E    FRONSAC  85 

person  to  be  intrusted  with  the  responsible  ckity  of  Indian 
Envoy  to  the  Russian  Court.  There  can  be  no  doubt  he 
fully  justified  the  confidence  thus  reposed  in  him  as  he  cstab- 
lisJicd  the  very  basis  of  the  arraiigeviejit  zvhieh,  despite  the 
rapid  progress  of  R?issiaii  ai'iiis  in  the  interval,  7oas  earried 
out  in  the  agreement  two  years  ago  to  delimit  the  Afghan 
frontier  by  a  Joint  eommission.  The  main  point  which  he 
established  was  that  Russia  consented  to  respect  the  territory 
then  in  possession  of  Shere  AH;  and  it  will  be  found  during 
the  negotiations  zuith  Russia  that  zue  have  not  advaneed  mueJi 
beyond  this  stage  at  the  /^resent  moment ^ 

"Immediately  after  his  return  to  India,  Mr.  Forsyth  was 
intrusted  with  a  second  mission,  more  interesting  in  its  sur- 
roundings, if  less  important  in  its  consequences  than  his  visit 
to  St.  Petersburg.  The  travels  of  Mr.  Shaw  had  introduced 
to  us  the  little  known  country  of  Chinese,  or  Eastern  Turk- 
estan and  its  famous  ruler  the  Atalik  Ghazi,  or  Yakoob  Bey. 
An  envoy  from  this  potentate  visited  India  and  Mr.  Forsyth 
was  sent  to  return  the  visit  to  Yarkand.  .  .  .  The  result  of 
the  mission  was  that  he  learned  something  definite  about  a 
state,  which,  at  the  time,  was  neither  Russian  nor  Chinese. 
Three  years  later  he  was  sent  on  a  second  mission  to  Kashgar, 
not  merely  that  he  might  complete  his  observations  of  an 
earlier  period,  but  also  that  he  might  acquire  precise  knowl- 
edge of  what  the  future  relations  of  Russia  with  this  .State 
would  be,  for  at  that  moment  Kashgar,  not  less  than  Khiva, 
stood  under  the  menace  of  Russian  invasion.  ...  His  report 
on  the  mission  forms  a  most  useful  guide  to  the  politics, 
natural  history  and  physical  condition  of  Eastern  Turkestan. 
For  this  he  was  made  Knight-Commander  of  the  Star  of 
India.  His  diplomatic  work  did  not  end  here  for  in  1875  he 
went  to  Burmah  to  obtain  an  explanation  of  the  King's  recep- 
tion of  Lisitai  and  to  effect  a  settlement  of  the  Karennec 
question.  .  .  .  Shortly  after  this  he  retired  from  the  service 
and  since  his  return  to  England  he  has  taken  prominent  and 


86  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

active  part  as  director  of  several  of  the  larger  Indian  rail- 
ways. In  1850,  he  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Thomas,  and 
granddaughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Plummer,  Master  of  the  Rolls, 
by  whom  he  had  three  daughters,  one  of  whom  married  the 
late  Sir  Harry  Parkes.  If  Sir  Douglas  Forsyth's  character 
had  to  be  summed  up  in  a  line  it  would  be  accurate  to  say 
that  he  was  a  plain,  straight-dealing,  truth-telling  English 
gentleman,  who  on  critical  occasions  exhibited  the  qualities 
of  a  hero."  His  life  has  been  published  recently  by  'his 
daughter.  Miss  Ethel  Forsyth.  In  addition  to  his  other  hon- 
ors not  mentioned  above,  he  was  made  in  1874  Additional 
Member  of  the  Governor-General's  Council.  A  peerage 
would  have  been  a  not  too  great  recognition  for  his  valuable 
service  to  the  empire,  and  the  majority  of  recent  peerage 
appointments  have  been  made  for  less. 


Capt.  James  Forsyth,  born  in  1838,  entered  the  British 
Indian  service.  He  was  settlement  officer  and  deputy  com- 
missioner of  Nimar  ;  captain  on  the  Bengal  Staff ;  author  of 
"The  Sporting  Rifle  and  its  Projectiles"  (1863)  and  "The 
Highlands  of  Central  India,  Notes  on  their  Forests  and  Wild 
Tribes,  Natural  History  and  Sports"  (1871).  He  died  at  38 
Manchester  Street,  Manchester  Square,  London,  Eng.,  May  i, 
1871. 

Sir  John  Forsyth,  inspector  general  of  the  Medical 
Department,  l^engal  Army,  1857;  honorar}-  ph)sician  to 
Her  Majesty,  OTieen  Victoria  (1861-1883);  Companion  of 
the  Bath,  and  Knight  Commander  of  the  Star  of  India  ;  was 
born  in  1799,  and  (bed  at  West  Brighton,  England,  January 
14,  1883. 


William   Forsyth,  son  of  Morris  Forsyth  of   Turriff  (see 
p.  12),  Aberdeenshire,  was  born  October  24,  18  18,  a  graduate 


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of  the  Universit}-  of  Aberdeen  and  Edinburgh.  He  was  a 
noted  journalist  and  author,  who  made  the  Aberdeen  Journal 
famous,  of  which  he  was  editor  from  1849  to  1870.  He  was 
author  of  "  The  Martyrdom  of  Kalvane"  (1861) ;  "  Idyls  and 
Lyrics"  (1872),  etc.  He  died  at  Richmond  Hill,  Aberdeen, 
June  21,  1879.  A  life  of  him  was  pubHshed  in  18S2,  by  A. 
Walker. 


Prof.  Axdrhw  Rus.^ell  F"()Rsyth,  M.  A.,  F.  R.  S.,  son  of 
John  Forsyth,  was  born  in  Glasgow.  June  18,  1S58.  He 
graduated  at  the  Liverpool  College  and  at  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge  University,  in  188 r,  where  he  was  "Senior 
\\Tangler,"  "First  Smith's  Prizeman''  and  Fellow  of  the 
College.  In  1882  he  was  Professor  of  Mathematics  at  new 
University  College,  Liverpool;  in  1884  Lecturer  on  Mathe- 
matics at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  and  Fellow  of  the 
Roval  Society  in  1886.  He  is  author  of  a  "Treatise  on 
Differential  FLquations  "  and  of  mathematic  papers  relating  to 
such  equations,  theory  of  functions  and  theory  of  invarian- 
tive  forms  published  in  the  "  Transactions  of  the  Royal 
Society  "  and  "  Cambridge  Philosophical  Society." 


The  Chevalier,  Major  John  Gerrard  For.syth,  of 
Montreal  (see  p.  14),  Knight  of  Sardinia,  etc.,  was  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  and  gallant  of  Canadian  soldiers.  He 
received  more  foreign  decorations  for  military  distinction 
than  any  other  Canadian.  He  was  born  in*"Montreal,  son  of 
John  Blackwood  Forsyth,  by  Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Gerrard,  first  president  of  the  Bank  of  Montreal.  His  life  is 
mentioned  in  the  first  edition  of  Morgan's  "  Celebrated  Cana- 
dians!' He  was  major  of  the  57th  Foot  and  served  with  most 
distinguished  gallantry  in  the  Crimean  War,  taking  part  in 
the    battles    of   Balaklava,    Inkermann,     Sebastapol    and    the 


88  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

Quarries.  He  led  the  storming  party  at  the  Redan,  which  is 
said  to  have  been  the  most  successful  of  any  storming  party 
in  the  campaign  of  the  British  in  that  war.  He  was  deputed 
to  lead  also  the  storming  party  at  Kinbourn.  For  the 
exemplary  manner  and  great  skill  he  showed  in  these  several 
duties,  performed  under  the  surveillance  of  the  allied  sover- 
eigns, he  was  made  a  Knight  with  the  Grand  Cross  of  the 
Legion  of  Honor  by  the  Emperor,  Napoleon  HI  ;  a  Knight 
of  the  Order  of  Medjidie  by  the  Sultan  of  Turkey';  a 
Knight  with  the  Sardinian  War  Medal  by  King  Victor  Em- 
manuel, and  given  the  medal  with  clasps  by  the  British  Gov- 
ernment. At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  Montreal. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Egberta,  daughter  of  John  Horseley, 
of  the  Madras  Civil  Service,  and  granddaughter  of  John  Byng, 
5th    Viscount  Torrington. 


Mrs.  Harriette  Marie  Forsyth  was  daughter  of  Major- 
Gen.  Joseph  Scott  Jewett  of  Scarborough,  Me.,  who  had  been 
colonel  of  a  Massachusetts  Regiment  in  18 19  and  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  General  Muster  of  Maine  Troops  in 
1839.  He  had  been  Senator  from  the  District  of  Maine  be- 
fore 1820  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  at  I^oston, 
and  a  commissioner  on  the  boundary  between  Maine  and  New 
Hampsiiire.  His  wife  was  Mary  Parker,  daughter  of  Robert 
Parker  lu-skine-Marr,  of  Scarborough,  of  the  Scottish  lamil}- 
of  Erskine,  Earls  of  Marr,  and  had  married  Olive,  daughter 
of  Hon.  Roger  Plaisted,  son  of  Judge  Ichabod  Plaisted,  who 
under  the  British  had  been  Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas  Court 
at  York,  Me.,  and  a  Royal  Councillor,  whose  father,  Capt. 
Roger  Plaisted,  Conunandant  of  the  Colonial  I^\)rts  at  Salmon 
Falls  and  Berwick,  also  a  l\())al  Councillor,  was  killed  in 
repelling  an  Indian  attac-k,  and  is  calletl  b}-  Williamson  in  his 
History  of  Maine  "'Hie  hero  of  Berwick."  lion.  Roger 
Plaisted's   wife   was    DcM-cas,    sister  to    Chief- Justice    Prentiss 


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Mellen  of  Maine,  in  1820,  and  aunt  of  Frederic  Mellen  the 
artist  and  Granville  Mellen  the  poet.  General  Jewett's 
father,  Joseph  Jewett,  had  come  from  Newburyport  to  Port- 
land before  the  American  Re\olution,  and  married  Ruth 
McLaughlin  of  a  noted  Irish  famih',  who  were  Lords  of  Clan 
Owen  near  Londonderr}',  heland.  He  was  one  of  the 
wealthiest  and  one  of  the  most  reliable  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Portland  —  then  called  Falmouth  ;  he  respected  the  Crown 
Government  and  when,  for  the  sedition,  conspiracy  and  politi- 
cal treachery  of  the  people  of  that  place,  Captain  Mowat, 
the  British  naval  officer,  landed  and  burned  the  town,  he 
spared  the  residence  of  Mr.  Jewett  from  esteem  of  his  person- 
ality. Mr.  Jewett's  father  was  James  Jewett,  of  Newbury- 
port, Mass.,  by  wife,  Sarah  Scott,  daughter  of  a  British 
officer  who  transmitted  through  her  his  Solingen  sword  to 
her  posterity  as  a  relic  of  his  race.  The  first  of  this  family 
to  America  was  the  Hon.  Maxmillian  Jewett,  one-time  Presi- 
dent (speaker)  of  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  who 
came  of  a  Norman  French  family  (Jouet)  from  Bradford,  W.  R. 
Yorkshire,  to  Rowley,  Mass.,  in  1638. 

Such  was  the  worthy  and  distinguished  ancestry  of  Mrs. 
Harriette  AL  P\)rsyth.  A  biographical  sketch  of  her  has 
appeared  in  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Register  for  1898,  the  year  of  her  death.  She  was  of  remark- 
able and  noble  characteristics,  with  dauntless  and  hopeful 
spirit,  even  under  the  shadow  of  great  adversities  of  fortune. 
To  her  family  she  was  devoted  and  loyal  to  the  sublimest 
self-abnegation.  She  was  witty,  brilliant  and  accomplished. 
On  her  graduation  da)-  she  was  the  first  pupil  in  music  and 
French,  and  ever  after  was  appreciated  among  high-minded 
l^eople  for  those  virtues  that  are  rare  at  the  present  time 
amidst  the  rubbish  that  are  filling  their  place.  She  was  about 
sixty-seven  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  her  death,  May  10, 
1898. 


90  FORSYTH    DE    FRONSAC 

William  F()Rs^■TH.  one  of  the  most  distinguished  botanists 
of  Scotland,  born  at  Old  Meldrum,  Aberdeenshire,  in  1737. 
Studied  arboriculture  and  after  graduation  was  gardener  to  the 
Company  of  Apothecaries  at  their  physic-garden  in  Chelsea. 
He  attracted  the  attention  of  King  George  III  who  appointed 
him  in  17S4  Superintendent  of  the  Royal  Gardens  of  Ken- 
sington and  St.  James.  In  1768  he  had  invented  a  compo- 
sition to  remedy  the  diseases  incident  to  fruit  trees.  The 
success  of  his  experiments  attracted  the  attention  of  the  com- 
missioners of  the  land  revenue  in  1789  and  a  committee  of  both 
Houses  of  Parliament  was  appointed  to  report  on  the  merits 
of  his  discovery.  The  result  of  their  inquiries  was  a  convic- 
tion of  its  utility,  and  an  address  was  voted  by  the  House  of 
Commons  to  his  Majesty  that  a  reward  be  granted  Mr.  For- 
syth. In  1 79 1  and  in  1802  he  published  works  relating  to 
his  discovery  and  to  arboriculture.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Linnasan  Society  and  also  of  other  learned  societies  of  Great 
Britain  and  Europe. 

The  Right  Hon.  Thoma.s  Spenxer  Forsaith,  Prime 
Minister  of  New  Zealand.  He  was  born  in  18 14  and  emi- 
grated to  New  Zealand  in  1840  as  a  clergyman.  He  was  sub- 
proctor  for  the  aborigines  and  accompanied  Admiral  Fitzroy, 
Governor  of  New  Zealand,  to  Waikanae  in  1844  to  confer 
with  the  Maori  Chiefs  concerning  the  massacre  of  W'airu. 
He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  first  House  of  Rein-esenta- 
tives  in  1854  and  was  appointed  by  tlie  acting  governor, 
Colonel  Wynward,  Prime  Minister  under  the  new  Constitution, 
a  post  owing  to  party  conflict  he  held  but  two  (la\s,  the  ministry 
being  defeated  by  a  vote  cjf  22  to  11  in  the  House  of 
Representatives. 


MRS.    HARRIETTE    MARIE    FORSYTH 


ARMS  OF  THE  ARYAN  ORDER  OF 
ST.  GEORGE  OF  THE  EMPIRE 


DESCRIPTION    OF   ARMS 

For  FoKSVTH  DE  Froxsac:  See  page  7. 

For  Forsyth  of  Tailzerton,  Failzertox,  axu  their  Suii- 
Brakches:  On  a  shield  argent,  a  cheveron  engrailed  gules,  between  3 
griffins  segreant,  vert,  armed  and  membered  gules. 

Crest  for  Tailzerton  :  A  demi-griffin,  vert,  armed  and  membered 
gules. 

Crest  for  Failzertox  :  A  griffin  head  lietween  two  wings,  dis- 
played vert,  beaked  gules. 

For  Forsyth  of  Elgix,  Cromarty  axd  .Suh-Hraxches  :  Shield 
same  as  for  Tailzerton  and  Failzerton  except  that  the  griffins  are  armed 
and  membered  sable  and  ducally  crowned,  or. 

Crest:  A  demi-griffin  vert,  armed  and  membered  sable,  ducally 
crowned,  or. 


LORDRE    SEIGNEUR- 
lAL         DU  CANADA. 


MEANING  OF  THE  MOTTOES 

Forsyth   de  Taii.zekjox  (Latin)  •'  histajtrator  Ruinae." 
Forsyth  de  Tailzertox  (English)  "  Restorer  of  the  Ruin." 
Forsyth  de  Failzerton  (French)  "  Loyal  a  la  Morte." 
Forsyth  de  Failzertox  (English)  "  Loyal  unto  Death.'" 
Hamiltox,   Duke  of  Hamilton  (Latin)  "  Sola' Nobilitas  Virtus.'" 
Hamiltox,   Duke  of  Hamilton  (English)  -  Honor  only  Noble." 
1>exxett.   Earl  of  Tankarville  (French)  -De   I)On  \'ouloir  servir  le 

Roy."" 

Bexxett.   Earl  of  Tankarville  (English)  -'With  good  faith  to  serve 

the  King."" 


CHART  SHOWING  THE  ALLIANCE  OF  THREE  BRANCHES  OF  THE  FAMILY. 


DAVID  DE  FORSYTH,   LORD   OF  DYKES  IN    157)   and   VICOMTE  DE  FRONSAC 


MARGUERITE 
m.  Capt.  Jehan  Denys  of  Honfleur,  France, 
great-grandson  of  the  explorer.  Their  heirs  were 
Nicolas  and  Simon  Denys,  sons  of  Capt.  Jacques 
Denys,  Sieur  de  la  ThibaudilTe  of  the  King's 
Guard.  Nicolas  Denys  wa«  Governor  of  Acadia 
in  1654,  etc.,  and  Vicomte  de  Fronsac. 


MATTHEW 
of  Auchengray 


WILLIAM 
BARBARA 


JAMES 
of  Cromarty 
and  Elgin 


ROBERT  OF  FAILZERTON 

Capt.  JAMES  OF  FAILZER- 
TON, m.  Marguerite,  d.  of 
Nicolas  Denys,  Vicomte  de 
Fronsac. 


RICHARD 
NICOLAS,  d.  s.  1 


MARGUERITE,  m. 

Capt.  James  Forsaith 

of  Failzerton. 


Hon.  MATTHEW        ALEXANDER        THOMAS 
of  Chester,  N.  H.  of  Cork 

ENSIGN  WILLIAM 
of  Deering,  N.  H. 


FREDERIC,  Vicomte  de  Fronsac 


FRKDERIC  GREGORY,Vicomte  de  ] 


THOMAS  SCOTT 


ALEXANDER 


ROBERT  JOHN 

JOHN 


WILLIAM        JOHN  H.         ANNE  J.       MARGARET  BENNETT. 


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